British army gets new target acquisition system, enemies cower
By Darren Murph 
posted February 22nd 2008 1:27PM
posted February 22nd 2008 1:27PM
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With the new head mounted displays, blowing an Iranian insurgent's body to pieces will suddenly cause a pop-up:
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - "Faster than Diet and Exercise"
10 -gamer points.
is that a virtual game boy he's looking through?
As far as I know Iranian insurgents are rare, if they exist at all. The Iranian government only financially back insurgents/groups in other nations.
Don't forget, the Fast Action Response Team will be taking care of this one.
Please dont let ELMO see this.......
I have seen Thales UK vans driving around. They were very well disguised as Plumbers, only now do I know that they were in fact transporting top secret military hardware, I reckon I could have easily hijacked the van and sold the contents to some Dictatorship for One Trillion Dollars, now I have missed my chance and have to live in poverty.
Thales also make railway equipment so you probably would have ended up with a load of signalling junk designed to make sure trains run at least 30 minutes late and contain 50% fewer seats than there are passengers.
Psshhh, they can see them, but that L85A2 next to him will jam before they can fire a single shot.
On Engadget, however, it begs the question: does it support MAME? What good are its primary functions if there's no game emulation?!
i believe the correct out-dated, overused comment was "ok, but will it play Doom?"
That would have been over-used. I was angling more for the recent spade of Chinese non-game-console gadgets (particularly in the camera and cell phone category) that also include game emulation and people complain that the games are crap. But sure, Doom will work, too. Or "But will it run Linux?", or how about the perennial Slashdot favorite: "Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
I'm glad he got it specified that he was looking at a TANK. We mortals wouldn't recognise a tank if it was right in front of us. Ask the dude at the Tiananmen Square back in 1989!
Man, they coulda used one of these in Red Vs. Blue so Sheila wouldn't have blown Church up.
So I guess the Britons aren't using longbows anymore?
Only against the French.
When you can only see your enemies Back, it doesn't matter what you use.
Does it have built in GPS? Then they could call it Surveillance, Navigation and Range Finder. I just like it for the acronym. :)
Best of all, the handheld system will feature integrated GPS
Great. How long before one of the squaddies gets their Landie stuck underneath a bridge?
Even if that's a training exercise, why the hell doesn't he have a clip in his L85?
It was a pre production training excercise, my dad (MOD) just saw the pic on the screen and remembers someone asking his advice on some other related issues for the trial. On training excercises like this UK troops don't feel the need to fire at each other so no need for a loaded clip.
I didn't say anything about ammunition, but it doesn't even look like he has a blocker to keep crap from getting inside, that was my point. Even when we took our weapons on training exercises we either had an empty short clip or a cap to keep it clean.
Ah sorry, misunderstood, the last bit was meant in jest btw, guess he forgot!
Bad soldier, bad! All is well, no offense taken.
by then hopefully they'll be out of the middle east
I would kill for a military style land rover defender.
I'm not a soldier, so I can't say for sure, but I reckon the troops would rather be properly equiped with boots and body armour before the budget was frittered toys like this.
@nh
thank you for qualifying your statement before you opened your mouth.,
Is that as much of a problem for Brit troops as it is USA's?
It's worse for British troops, there are often articles in the papers comparing how much better equipped US troops are compared to the UK... with night vision for everyone, decent desert boots and stuff like that.
Challenger II?
On the other hand, I bet this plays doom.
I wonder if the French standard equipment includes running shoes, white cloth, and sticks?
@cluster
Doesn't sarcasm reach your part of the Interweb? Nevermind.
Anyway British troops are notoriously ill equipped at present. One recent example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7247747.stm
the british army are nicknamed 'the Borrowers'.
so yea, its pretty bad...a little attention from the MP's and the PM could solve the problem, but they give the cold shoulder.
Yes the eternal scapegoats. "Damn those MPs for not being able to magic up more money!" Or should it be diverted from the NHS? Please don't start on about their salaries or expenses, you'd want the same if you were one of them.
psh, but can it stop US friendly fire? i think not.
those brits still have a way to go if they want to survive on a battlefield