Posted on 02/01/2015 7:43:25 AM PST by WhiskeyX
The U.S. Navy has introduced a multi-player video game to help train sailors in missile destruction and avoidance. The game has now been deployed to 30 ships, totaling 115 onboard personnel.
According to the Office of Naval Research, the game, called Strike Group Defender: The Missile Matrix, calls on sailors to make split-second decisions in order to dodge missiles fired at a Navy ship. Sailors can choose to respond to the missiles with electronic means, which constitutes a “soft kill,” or more traditional methods like direct interception, called a “hard kill.”
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We should be able to buy a copy at Walmart sometime later this spring.
We should be able to buy a copy at Walmart sometime later this spring.
“We should be able to buy a copy at Walmart sometime later this spring.”
I’ll bet you can buy a copy in China already....sigh
Is there an iOS version? Or do you need a play station or Xbox?
Missile Command 2015
Synopsis excerpt from wikipedia:
This novel is set in a then-future 2004. There is still a (theoretical) Cold War between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. At the elite governmental level, however, both "sides" have secretly come to an agreement. They have decided that, instead of continuing the ecologically and economically crippling nuclear and conventional arms race, they will pretend to be constantly developing new weapons, which are then "plowshared." This means that these items are transformed into novel but baroque consumer products.
You know, our actual military is a shadow of what it used to be. Perhaps DOD is really just making video games now.
Later. Thanks!
Somebody was a fan of the movie The Last Starfighter.
Wasn’t that called “Asteroids” when I was a kid?
You know, with the rollerball controller.
Missile Command is probably more in context being a terrestrial based shooting game.
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