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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.
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"
Oh god how embarassing. I totally thought that if I made a random post online to slashdot that British military personal would come to Canada, knock on my door and recruit me.
How do you even keyboard?
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.
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...
Yes, I don't actually enjoy games that have respawn nearly as much as ones that don't, or have expensive consequences.
E.G I love Eve online, losing a ship is expensive, it doesn't respawn, you have to buy another one, full cost. Except if your alliance helps you out.
Or games like diablo 3, hard core mode only.
Simulation mode in war thunder, planes and tanks get a single life.
I wish there were more games that had that consequence that makes you really not want to die or lose your assets, but a lot of people don't go for it.
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)....