Video Gamers to fly drones over Afghanistan
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Britain plans to replace its highly trained pilots controlling drones flying surveillance missions over Afghanistan with lower grade staff.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) announced Saturday that pilots without full combat training will replace top guns in controlling unmanned Reaper planes in 'frontline missions' in Afghanistan as part of a plan to reduce costs.
Currently the drones, capable of carrying laser-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles, are flown by highly trained fighter pilots, who have undergone the GBP 4m fighter pilot program -- 8,000 miles away in Nevada, western US.
Although a small mistake by the remote-controlled pilot can be lethal for civilians or friendly forces nearby, RAF chiefs, believe that 'lower grade' pilots with 30 hours' basic flying training can fly sensitive missions over Afghanistan.
"'We don't necessarily need highly trained pilots," the Daily Mail qouted Wing Commander Richard McMahon as saying.
It appears that RAF chiefs have based their claim on studies suggesting that the best drone crews are often young 'video-game players' rather than 'experienced fighter pilots'.
The announcement comes as the number of Afghan and Pakistani civilians killed in US and NATO-led airstrikes has increased dramatically in recent years, triggering strong criticism against the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Dig:
There is no video game agenda! there is no conspiracy to desensitize the future tools of genocide!
Unintelligable Name:
Quote from: Sane on March 01, 2009, 07:05:17 PM
There is no video game agenda! there is no conspiracy to desensitize the future tools of genocide!
All I know is the killer instict aggitated by Video Games only serves to make me more of a master blaster again New World Order soldiers.
Programming sure -- but they can't guarantee it will convince me or anyone to join their side. Tisk tisk Pentagon... you didn't catch me in your net.
Dig:
Quote from: Chemicalrain on March 01, 2009, 07:22:27 PM
All I know is the killer instict aggitated by Video Games only serves to make me more of a master blaster again New World Order soldiers.
Programming sure -- but they can't guarantee it will convince me or anyone to join their side. Tisk tisk Pentagon... you didn't catch me in your net.
When you separate the one killed from the killer, you can present any scenario you wish. You can call anyone an "enemy" in a video game. You can create amazingly realistic friendly fire scenarios or put fake weapons in the hands of civilians or change the look of children on a soccer field to look like a mob carrying RPGs, you can have 500 different targets look like the same "Al Qaeda #1 Terrorist". How much real world combat experience do 15 year olds have? I do not believe they are doing this right now, but that is where it is heading. You can create amazingly fantastic genocides when you have all of the fire coming from the sky by people looking through an NWO controlled filter who's only combat experience is killing hundreds of thousands of "enemies" in video games.
squarepusher:
Quote from: Sane on March 01, 2009, 07:29:46 PM
When you separate the one killed from the killer, you can present any scenario you wish. You can call anyone an "enemy" in a video game. You can create amazingly realistic friendly fire scenarios or put fake weapons in the hands of civilians or change the look of children on a soccer field to look like a mob carrying RPGs, you can have 500 different targets look like the same "Al Qaeda #1 Terrorist". How much real world combat experience do 15 year olds have? I do not believe they are doing this right now, but that is where it is heading. You can create amazingly fantastic genocides when you have all of the fire coming from the sky by people looking through an NWO controlled filter who's only combat experience is killing hundreds of thousands of "enemies" in video games.
Metal Gear Solid 2 actually covers this - the main character in that game, Rayden, is belittled by the old veteran, Solid Snake, for not having any real-world training and that his VR training does not make him a soldier, and further emphasizes to him that war is not a game and that an entire generation is being conditioned into treating war as a game.
Metal Gear Solid 4 takes this even further.
Even within the videogame industry, there are still some lone voices like Hideo Kojima who sense what is happening to society and incorporate that into their storylines. Hollywood is just as guilty as the videogame industry for that matter.
Still, I do recognize that the US videogame industry as a whole is far more violent and gun-ho than the Japanese one.
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