[zappo2938]

Navy submarines use XBox controllers to control parascopes.

[selectodude]

The USAF uses them for Predator drone flying as well.

I'm not really a pacifist but there is something profoundly unsettling about real-life Call of Duty.

[skyyler]

Before this, the M67 grenade was designed to be familiar to soldiers that grew up throwing around baseballs.

I find that incredibly similar to this.

[jjk166]

More likely game controllers over the past few decades have evolved to be really optimized for controlling the position and orientation of an entity in 3D space which happens to be the same problem for characters in videogames and many objects in the real world, and their ubiquity makes them both cheap and easy to integrate.

[zaptrem]

And being designed to withstand children and pro-gamers alike makes them reliable and accurate!

[29athrowaway]

Also used to control drones and robots in other branches of the armed forces.

[tcptomato]

periscopes ...