Tactical Smartphones Are The Army's Newest Weapon

[VincentX3]

This is cool and everything, but the phrase "tactical smartphones" just makes me giggle

Imagine trying to hold a serious conversation and they blurt out
so we have tactical smartphones!

Kind of hard not to laugh a bit

 

[darthricardo]

From the Article:

JBC-P displays a battlefield map, complete with GPS positioning of friendly and hostile units and terrain hazards.

So... it's like the kind of GPS that we've been using in online shooters for years now? Damn, that's actually pretty awesome.

 

[doomboy29]

So RL soldiers have mini maps now! AWESOME!

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

I wonder if this will be implemented into MW3...

3 Kill Streak - Tactical Smartphone is standing by.
Activated - Our Tactical Smartphone is online.

Ah haha...I had a good laugh over that. Thank you for that comment.

 

[Danpascooch]

Holy shit, Droid should totally do a Duracell style commercial of soldiers using Android phones in the battlefield with some sort of deep voice narrating something along the lines of "These soldiers need a phone OS they can depend on with their very lives, they chose Android"

Lol.

 

[HentMas]

COMMING UP NEXT!: Korea Invades US of A while troops are bussy playing Angry Birds on their smart phones!!!

 

[Jamous]

Getting closer and closer to actually having an HUD then...

Though this is pretty much the UAV/radar from the CoD series, which is awesome.

Tis fairly epic, is it not. HUD Here we come!

 

[Singularly Datarific]

JBC-P displays a battlefield map, complete with GPS positioning of friendly and hostile units and terrain hazards.

Bout time the Military got minimaps.

 

[Snotnarok]

Just how long till Private Pile is disciplined for playing Angry Birds while they're under sniper fire?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

*looks up from the cellphone jammer being built to fuck with the neighbours*

Well my flat will be safe from US invasion.

 

[Mohanimus]

Read New Model Army. The future of warfare is peer to peer

 

[Sovereignty]

This is fine and all, but there is a slightly minor issue there. Smartphones can be stolen, Theese phones will have 'military grade' apps on them not to mention the phones can already access their network.
Get one of them and you know where your opponent is going to come knocking next.
Get your hands on maybe a dozen and you can start to screw with them.
Get your hands on at least 30 and you can have the same intelligence network theyre using against you.

Also heres a slightly tasteless joke.

Next step is it becoming real life.

Next step is some guy taking a last picture of another guy who just shot him.

Last step is Activison somehow putting it in CoD as a 'tribute'.

If the enemy gets a hold of one, they'll know (Pretty obvious when a soldier reports his phone missing.) At which point it's easy to A) Use GPS to track it down and B) Stop all transmissions to said device.

These are smart-phones not cups on string. You can't just break into it without there being even the smallest fail-safe =)

 

[Robert0288]

Most terrorist groups also have tactical smartphones, though they don't always work

 

[RA92]

Impressive. But not quite as impressive as...

Tactical Bacon!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/c399_tactical_canned_bacon.jpg

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

...how come the U.S. Army seems to be a step behind affluent 20-something gadget-head twats? this is worrying.

No need to worry until the US Army inducts the 1st Mechanized Hipster Regiment.

 

[Logic 0]

Tactical smart-phones men we truly are in the future now.

 

[awesome_ninja]

I lol'd hard.... xD

 

[duchaked]

This is cool and everything, but the phrase "tactical smartphones" just makes me giggle

hahaha yeah it does have a sorta ring to it

also it's funny cuz I got that image of James Bond in the Bloodstone game running around looking down at his (tactical?) smartphone...

 

[duchaked]

I wonder if this will be implemented into MW3...

3 Kill Streak - Tactical Smartphone is standing by.
Activated - Our Tactical Smartphone is online.

LOL so basically the enemies get high-lighted on a HUD like in Ghost Recon?