Everyone shitting on the submarine using a controller seems to forget or not know that the u.s navy themselves use them to control their submarines. source

[–] grrk@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You seem to have forgotten that the navy gets fucking lockheed martin to make their specialized $38,000 controllers, not some generic $20 logitech bullshit off of amazon. See your own source for reference.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah this stuff has to pass qual testing. Extreme high and low temperatures, vibration profiles, humidity and sea water exposure, probably shock loads, stricter EMI controls (compared to FCC), ESD exposure, explosive atmosphere testing, and so on and so on.

[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

The U.S. Navy plans to equip its Virginia-class submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which will control the ship’s periscopes.

Periscopes. Not steering the goddamned sub.