Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system
Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system
The remotely controlled gun turrets follow a trend in this war, in which remotely operated unmanned systems are ever-present and wildly destructive.
Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.
“Ya got the ninendo guns set up yet?”
Steam decks are reliable commercial-off-the-shelf compact battery operated linux computers.
Steam = bibeo games
Deck = console
Now read the headline and tell me if it's epic
Ukrainian soldiers are absolutely going to get mowed down by their own turrets.
Does this serve any practical purpose, or is this whole thing engineered for the reddit upvotes? (you know the answer)
I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.
A remote turret you can't reload ain't it
scrubs don't even use gyro aim, pathetic boomer mentality
This is the most
thing I've ever seen.been using them for over a year now:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/using-a-steam-deck-to-control-a-ukrainian-automatic-turret-now-ive-seen-it-all/This truly is the year of the linux desktop
Hey if it works it works. COTS parts are the way to go.
