Air Force Wants Space War Game

Source URL: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002060.html
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/931

Blasting pixilated space ships can be mighty fun, as anyone who's ever played Galaga can tell you. The Air Force thinks it can put all that joystick time to good use, too -- by using games to help airmen prepare for real-life outer space combat.

The service is looking for game maker to build a sim for what it calls “counterspace operations” -- military-speak for stopping enemy satellites.

Right now, it’s hard to train folks to handle these kinds of missions. Wargaming in orbit is an expensive and risky proposition. And most – but definitely not all -- of the coolest counterspace toys are still on the drawing board. So the Air Force wants a video game “where these tasks can be trained and rehearsed in a realistic set of scenarios and simulations.”

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