Ukrainian soldier using a Steam Deck to fire a remote turret against russian positions

19 comments

1. No respawning here.

2. Playing for reals this time.

3. Lot of brass there!

4. Care package incomming.

5. I mean, that’s cool and all but standing right behind it kinda defeats the purpose.

6. r/SteamDeck

7. bloody spawn campers

8. Pretty cool. I wonder if Valve has any problems with this.

9. Remote Weapons Stations are the way forward. They were first issued to us decades ago and there’s no looking back once you’ve used one. They are more accurate because the human isn’t involved and safer for all the obvious reasons.

10. My man makes me want to scream: kneel!

11. Give that man a keyboard and a mouse ASAP.

12. All hail to the PS portable

13. Pretty sure that’s not covered in the EULA…

14. So this is the evolution from the water wheighted guns the Aussie’s had at Gallipoli nice 😀

15. “Buildin’ a Sentry”

16. This reminds me of an interesting scruple. If you had an opportunity to fly a Ukrainian FPV drone from your computer and drop a grenade on a russian soldier, would you?

    It would be easy to set up a program in which a person who has donated a certain amount of money to support Ukraine, they could actually control a drone, do a drone drop and have video of this experience. There would need to be a kill-switch for the safety of the person setting the drone in position. The program would include a training using software that is much like a game. (This basically already exists) Once the participant completes the simulation training, they do a practice run with a real drone and perform a real drone drop. If that goes well, the participant is eligible repeat this experience.

    This may be a tough scruple for some but I bet there are many who would make very large donations to experience this.

17. It’s a fairly powerful Linux computer with a very ergonomic and customizable controller built in. It’s perfect for systems like this. The US military uses (or used to use) Xbox 360 controllers, makes sense cuz it’s a proven design and is built to be durable and ergonomic for accurate controls.

18. Need to harness the gyro. It’s one of the best features for it. 

19. They should cover the entire Ukraine/russia border with those things and slowly move them forward while keeping Ukraine operations safely away.