Comments on: us army remote vehicles using xbox 360 controller?

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:57:15 +0000

U.S. Army doesn’t use “Multicam” (though I wish we did)

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:19:59 +0000

its just loike using a wii controler for a smartboard a kid at my school did it

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:15:01 +0000

in my opinion i thin there is NO way this photoshop. I live in the U.K and a lot of armed forces addverts air on t.v and it show the soliders using “sugs” so this seems very plausible

and yes my real name Ahmed

By: Your dads mom

Your dads mom — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:54:59 +0000

The army payed microsoft to use their controller beacuse it was the most effective one to use when controlling their radion contrelled machines!

By: mr t

mr t — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:33:09 +0000

as if

By: nick

nick — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:12:37 +0000

Actually it is 100% real. it might be photoshopped but the robot is actually controlled by a 360 controller. I saw this on discovery and they say its because “when these soldiers arent in the fight or are not yet in the fight they wil most likely have played video games, We try to close the gap and make it eaiser to control for the soldier”. 100% real that controller is and why do you think the army has the america:army video game. Its all about recruiting and taking those digital skill into the fiture digital battlefield. Whoever thinks its fake obviously didnt do their homework

By: keagun

keagun — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:26:44 +0000

that Comment was directed at souic

By: keagun

keagun — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:25:54 +0000

Dude, you retard, who said the controller is connected to the bot, maybe it is connected to sumthing else. It wouldnt make snence for it to be attached to the bot cuz your right, iot would be 5 feet ahead of you.Possibly it was wired, maybe there are more than 1 Controller…

By: Keagun

Keagun — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:22:02 +0000

lol can it T-bag, nice comment

By: manabog

manabog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:26:38 +0000

this is real i saw it on discovery channel they used a wired 360 controller ,this controller was wired to a power amplifier that alowed the soldiers to control the vehicles from long distances much greater distances than a wireless controller would alowed them , so for people who say “photoshop lol wired controller ” read more !

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:11:49 +0000

No this is for real. i saw a show on the military chanel about it.

By: Sig, J33zy

Sig, J33zy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:23:55 +0000

well check the UKs advert. its Wired to a COMPUTER with a DISPLAY and 360 controlers wired/wireless have Windows/MAC OS/Linux Drivers so easy enough get a robot controled by a PC and u can control it using a 360 Controler

And what Robert said “It makes sense actually. Soldiers coming into the service today are very familiar with these controllers. Training becomes a natural extension of what they already know.”

most of the Armys Tech is Civilian Contracted thats why we are not alowed to rip it open and just fuck around with it. unless in a Danger Situation. if it brakes they send it back. like the rest of us

and yes. i said “We” im currently in the Recruting Process waiting for a date to go

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:23:15 +0000

It makes sense actually. Soldiers coming into the service today are very familiar with these controllers. Training becomes a natural extension of what they already know.

The 360 controller can do both wired and wireless. It uses the wire to charge the unit. Note too that the wire doesn’t have to hook up to the actual robot it’s driving. It could be hooked to whatever display panel the soldier might use.

By: Bulldog47Aus

Bulldog47Aus — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:15 +0000

http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/11/04/army-fly-uav-spy-plane-with-xbox-360-controller/

Suiociv and others, I refer you to the above website featuring a tv advert for the UK Army – speculate as much as you want, they are real.

By: suoiciv

suoiciv — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:42:41 +0000

a wii controler for what exactly? Are we going to be waving are arms around like retarded bilo’s to do war now? ya, it may be we are using similar controlers to control such things as this, but they wouldnt go as far as to have the X box 260 motto in the center of the controler (Via the big grey button) the military would have no use for that. And as previously said, restating, why would the controler be wired??? wtf, the bot gets 5 feet away from you?? that wouldnt be a very use’ful bot right there. So, the controler is dangling in mid air, or its wired and wont get 5 feet away from the controler, the us military is all about being better, we wouldnt take steps back…fucking retards

By: Bulldog47Aus

Bulldog47Aus — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:23:08 +0000

US Army do indeed use a xbox shaped controller for at least 2 UGV’s – the small bot pictured above and a larger ATV used to carry armaments and supplies, platoon leader usually controls them. No photoshopping. It is a common fact we all have to get used to that virtual battles are not just created on game servers, but on our planet in real life. I mean how longs Americas Army been out and what was its original purpose? Use of such technologies has been around for a while. Theres a show on discovery channel called Future Weapons – check it out, features the Xbox UGVs and lots of other cool techs.

By: Required

Required — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:35:15 +0000

That’s not all.
At the university of minnesota, i got a chance to check out a drone made by technitians that were controlled by wii motes.
i bet their are loads of examples of video game controllers being used by the army and emergency services around the world.

By: Stupid

Stupid — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:47:56 +0000

Haha, yea real shape, real controller and i guess they use the microphone port for their military comms? lol

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/army_xbox360_1.jpg

I would fit my car with round wheels but maybe not ones that are designed for a TOY CAR!!!!!!!

By: A Soldier

A Soldier — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:22:51 +0000

Take it from one who knows, it’s for real, real shape, real controller, but not made by microsoft.

It is an excellent design of controller.

Would you fit your car with anything other than round wheels when you know that it’s a tried and tested design?

By: zack spencer

zack spencer — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:26:56 +0000

Hi every one i got a question why would the army fake something like that they have better things to do like saving there contry this is not photoshop use . why is it not possible to use an x box 360 controller in war but i’m 100% positive it’s true