Now this is a very interesting article on how the gaming industry is influencing the military of the future.
I used the controls to perform a target lock on an unsuspecting civilian Fleet Week spectator, and as the rooftop turret followed the poor fellow around the area, I remarked to one of the ONR representatives how frighteningly similar the whole system was to a video game. He agreed, then showed me a military spec version of an Xbox 360 gamepad that was an alternate interface for the same machine. (It wasn't all that different from the one we thumbed to test drive the Army's robotic MULE vehicle from Lockheed Martin earlier this year.)
So yes your twitch skills may one day allow you to blast Al-Quida scum hiding in the hills around Jalalabad with the machine guns on a Predator Drone. I wonder if the Predator pilots of the future will be shouting "boom, headshot" over and over as they rack up the Frags? I would be willing to bet even money that eventually we will see Predator Pilot sponsored by the US Air Force out for the Xbox 360 in the next few years.
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