How bankers and lawyers have fun killing virtual people with a SMG - Sub Machine Guns in inflatable Afghanistan

First 11 of 11 paragraphs shown You have work as as bankers and lawyer or the Depart of Defense, to play this game, as the guns - in 69 standard small arms designs - cost up tp $1000 or more each. But thousands have rushed to buy, in a gaming arms-race.
- Then you have to buy the inflatable buildings.
The killer application: A huge financial success - and 200 franchises - was reported for a killer application by the Australian inventors of a war game Battlefield Live. It used guns based on infrared with a “small-arms transmitter receivers’ in an outdoor setting.   Evolved from paintball: Starting off "on the kitchen table" in 1999, Peter and Nicole Lander says the first Battlefield had a huge response.
A team combat game system: It was played in locations such bushland, around buildings an in large warehouses.
Bankers and lawyers: "Our best audiences are bankers and lawyers", say the Landers, who started manufacturing their own game guns and licensing concept franchises. A year later, Battlefield opened in US, then Britain via the franchises.
Now aims to sell to the military: The company was marketing its  blow-up "mobile training centre' to the military market.
Inflatable Afghanistan: "It allows the military to use training purposes, a forceforce drill exercise, simulate troops walking through a village. At $4000 it's cheaper than building a whole villlage," Lander says.
Gaming guns shoot infrared "ghost bullets". These "laser tag guns" work either indoors or outdoors with a small arms transmitter receiver, patent pending. This configured to emulate 69 weapons; and these were available at about $1000 each in look alike, for example the SMG - Sub Machine Gun.

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