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British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks
concertina226 writes The U.K. branch of global defense firm General Dynamics is working on a futuristic state-of-the-art smart-tank to replace the British Army's aging armored vehicle fleet, to be delivered to the Ministry of Defense in 2020. The Scout SV armored vehicle is the first fully-digitized armored fighting vehicle to have been built for the British Army, and is far bigger and more durable than any of its existing tanks, which are now at least 20 years old. The tank comes in six variants that can be customized with a tools for different missions, and has numerous sensors, cameras, and sights to offer real-time intelligence on weather conditions, target acquisition, and reconnaissance — all crucial battlefield data required by commanders to access and direct situations. "With the capability in the Scout SV, we're really looking for the type of people who play Xbox games – tech-savvy people who are able to take in a lot of information and process it in the proper way," says Kevin Connell, the vice president for General Dynamic UK's Land Systems Regiment.
I consider myself capable of flying or driving anything from remote aircraft, aircraft carriers, submarines, and tanks in a remote setting.
Let's increase the mental distance between killing people. "With the capability in the Scout SV, we're really looking for the type of people who play Xbox games – tech-savvy people who are able to take in a lot of information and process it in the proper way," AKA: "With the capability in the Scout SV, we're really looking for the type of people who play Xbox games – trigger-happy twitchy gamers who are able to follow commands, complete objectives, ask no questions, question no commands. No critical thinking required"
Driving a tank is probably the stupidest thing you can do in a war, short of being an infantryman.
Both because there is no direct relation between being able to operate a machine designed to be as intuitively to operate as possible and actually having tech skills and because if they were they would be playing the PS4, which is technologically superior.
A recoil effect from a 40mm barrel on a 30+-ton vehicle? That can't possibly be so extreme that mere inertia couldn't handle it.
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British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks
Well they can't have my smart tank. They can build their own!
British Army Looking For Gamers With Their Smart-Tanks
Now that's a headline.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I'll wait for the PC port.
They say they want creative soldiers, but they will not achieve this.
The minute they join recruit school, they will have all creativeness beaten out of their brains. The only way to do things correctly in the military is to follow a procedure.
By the time they are in a position of making a decision to use their creativity, they are too old and now there is 8 ranks beneath and 2 above them acting to inhibit their creativity.
It won't happen.
the tank can carry six men each up to 6'6" (198cm) tall and weighing up to 16 stone (101kg, 224 pounds)
For such a modern tank the measurement units seem like they came from the stone age.
So you are asserting that on soft mud, the recoil effect won't cause a 1% error for subsequent shots?
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the largest and smartest tank ever designed for the British Army
So my first thought was surely not - the Challenger 2 is a main battle tank and must be bigger. But it turns out I was wrong. The Challenger 2 is still 20 tonnes heavier, but significantly shorter in height:
Challenger 2: Length 27ft 3 x Height 8ft 2 x Width 11 ft 6
Scout SV: Length: 25ft x Height: 9ft 10in x Width: 11ft
Crudely multiplying those numbers to get an approximation of volume gives the Scout SV the edge (just).
No, I'm asserting that with an actively stabilized turret, if the firing computer can't deal with these perturbations, there's a design error somewhere in it.
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Yeah, I miss the wholesome arcade games of the 80's, like Battlezone, Red Barron, Scramble, Rush 'N Attack, and Missile Command. No military propaganda there. Nope.
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And the tanker I was talking to said that a tank was far too complex for one person to control. To that I replied "Fighter jet." He got rather angry for some reason...
I thought the vehicle in question had an unstabilized turret.
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If they get pwn3d they can blame it on lag.
All glory to Arstotzka!
A real tank from 1940, maybe.
A current real tank firing solution makes movement (including momentum, terrain influence and recoil) of tank, turret and weapon, completely transparent for the gunner.
I drove tanks, flew planes and helicopters, even had control of power sources.
Urban Assault http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
Wasted talent sitting here, wasted.
If only i had an Xbox with ultra realistic autoaim/autopilot gameplay (sarcasm)....
Hey, if it keeps them out of 8chan and harrassing women on the internet, I'm all for it.
Maybe this is the ideal job for #GamerGaters. They'd get to kill people by remote control.
You are welcome on my lawn.
When I played Red Baron, I BEGGED the West German Air Force to take me! I imagined fighting Russian MIGSwith my Red Triplane.
Missile Command.? You bet! I BEGGED my senator to be appointed to the Air Force Academy so that I could eventually get into NORAD and defend America and Canada from Russian nukes. On my entrance essay, I said so? I am a 'C' student but just look at my score on Missile Command!
My stupid senator passed me over and sent some dork who got a 1500+ on his SATs (back when 1600 was the top score) and was quarterback on his HS football team. And pfft! He ended up working on the Thunderbirds - a fucking puppet show!!
Life is unfair and they pass over exceptional talents such as me.
Next up, I'll explain how IBM passed me by for Lou Gerstner for CEO even though I kicked his ass BIG time at Packman!
Last. Star. Fighter.
Life imitates art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Xbox gamers who would like to die a really horrible death trapped in a metal box.
As I understand it, very few have died inside a tank in recent history.
As far as I can see on my quick Googling, the British Army has never lost a Challenger 2 tank, despite being battered in various warzones. Some US Abrams tanks have been lost in Iraq, however. (According to this page at least.)
The International Business Times should be ashamed. This is not a Tank it is an Armored Fighting Vehicle. They even start off calling it that and then just start calling it a tank.
This is actually more of a scouting vehicle and would have a pretty short life span if it had to fight a tank in the open.
This is a tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Notice the much larger main gun.
As you can see it is also much larger aka heavier than the Scout SV.
I mean really do they not check any facts at all? Do they not bother to ask an expert in the subject before the publish?
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This sounds like the garbage that any military recruiter will spew to entice you to sign up. "Oooh! You're really good! We need your hawt leetness! What? You didn't get a position in the Scout SV playing real life video games. Eat it soldier, you'll serve where you're told."
They need to recruit Starcraft playing Koreans.... these dudes lay smackdown on the rest of the world. Over 1/2 of the worlds top 100 players are Korean I believe.
As long as nobody gets the bright idea to treat them for PTSD with "Depression Quest".
Yeah... what about swarms of small autonomous/remote controlled tanks. They could work something like they do in Starcraft 2.
Incapacitate en-mass, kill the ones that are *actually with intention to kill you*. Choice quote for you: Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
As a recent article in IEEE Spectrum discusses, Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, such as those depicted in the movie Oceans Eleven, have become more capable. They can wipe out electronics with no visible signature. EMPs might be deployed either as portable weapons, dropped from a plane or fixed booby traps
Now if they were looking for DPS, they'd have recruits coming out the ass!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
I was relieve to see that the tank still comes with the ability for the crew to make tea. An important armored fighting innovation the British have had in all their tanks since WWII! (background about 20s into the video)
This is not a tank, it's an IFV.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Geez how the press gets this sort of thing so wrong. It's not a tank, it's an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). It's lightly armored against small arms and small-bore auto-cannon rounds, not against ATGMs, tank main guns, or RPGs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The weight at 34 tonnes is much less than that of any current front-line tank (according to Wikipedia the Challenger 2 is 62.5 tonnes, almost double the Scout SV). It is a lot heavier than most current IFV's (e.g., the German Marder at 28 tonnes or BMP-3 at 18.7 tonnes), but that may not be such a good thing. It makes strategic mobility more of a problem and ensures that the Scout SV can't swim across rivers by itself.
Some reporter just cut and pasted from the press release. Feh!
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The Bofors 40mm AA gun of WW2 vintage was commonly mounted on a trailer - much lighter than a tank.
It would have been useless as an AA weapon if it was bouncing around all over the place when it was fired.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well hell, now I'm in.
Remember when games were entertainment, instead of blatant propaganda for military recruitment?
Back in the day, Doom wads were used for Marine training and recruitment. America's Army was first released in 2002.
They better rethink this before the SJW's destroy gaming and dry up their recruiting pool.
The SV is definitely not "far bigger and more durable than any of its existing tanks", being quite a bit lighter than the Challenger 2's 60+ tonnes. It's is certainly bigger and heavier than the CVR(T) series vehicles it is intended to directly replace, although there are many who say that a vehicle who's primary mission is reconnaisance should not be a 40 tonne tank.
no way can this do the MBT role the image is of a recce vehicle with some 30mm pop gun - and 6 man crew wtf the dropped the 5th man after ww2
There was no such thing as the British Army until about 6 centuries later, you fat twat.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Nonetheless, recoil control is a solved problem since anyone alive can remember.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."