sounds like the AirForce will have a little more free time than before

awsome! You'll never hear the AIr Force use Xbox 360s!

awesome!

this is just another example of how powerful the PS3 truly is. The 360 simply cannot handle something such as folding@home and probably wouldn't be able to handle whatever the Air Force is planning to use the PS3 for. And now the fact that MGS4 doesn't even fit on a 50gb blu-ray pretty much solidifies the game as ps3 exclusive because there is no way it would fit on a 360 dvd....

look like they getting bored of war already LOL or they r using the ps3 4 training simulation like in MGS

"The US Air Force will not be disappointed this holiday season because they will have 300 PS3's."

mattmans.. ur a loser

It's good that a gaming console is finally useful for something other than video gaming. The Airforce couldn't use the Xbox 360 if they wanted to because they would Red Ring on them, Ha ha ha. The Playstation 3 is The Power.

Now thats playing with power!

Now this really could be some good news. Big Brother is always watching u now.

What, no 300 360's?!

they just want some free ps3 s thats all =P

ps3=US AIR FORCE 2008 is gonna be Great

Some interesting points listed above, but i'm concerned about big brother watching over us.  But if they truely are using it for combat simulation, that just goes to show the power of the cell pushing high definition photo-realistic games to the limit, so how about more blood. (I mean enough so it actually rolls down the side of the wall and not just some other splatter, just a suggestion.)

its like sony is becoming the next cknet

Well the Xbox has dedicated chips in it that allow it to uncompress stuff in almost real time. Which gives it an advantage as to allow it to store more then 9 gigs on to a disk that is cheaper to make then Blu-ray. But at the same time there is no way you can compress 50gigs onto a 9 gig disk and still expect it to uncompress fast.

2007 was just a slow year for the Playstation 3. Now that it's getting all the good games and attention from the Air Force it should be a good year for it. Of course the air force isn't going to use it as a Playstation they are just going to put linux on it and use it at a computer but w/e it's still a Playstation 3.

Great! now sony will get innocent lives on their concience. Thanks a lot America!

@hyperslug

Leave your skewed politics at the door, no one wants to hear it.

i'm sure its for its blu-ray player not for the cell processors !

Well, 300x215GFLOPS=64.5TFLOPS and 300x$400=$120000 has anyone knows another supercomputer with 64.5TFLOPS for $120k? Good deal!

From parking cars to fighter jets?  Sony might not win in sales, but they sure as he!! will with ideas like these.

 actually, the usaf wants these ps3's because of  WHAT they can do. read  this article  and you can see why 300 ps3's could be important:  http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140064/article.html

its all about the cell processor.

oh. and hyperslug is an oxymoron.

lol, its like an xbox 360 reporter goes up to a USAF dude and is like "can you please tell us why your using the ps3 instead of the 360?" and the dude will be like "well, #1 - the processing chip in the 360 sucks, #2 - its lame, #3 - were not going to buy a quadzillon double A batteries for those freakin controllers, let alone 60 bucks for three hundred 360s for crappy internet service and no browser, #4 oh, and did i say it was lame???"...... lmao!!! i can see it now

i dont think they only want them for the cell prossesor... i bet they will at least once, throw a game in the ps3.. COD4 maybe?

kooooooolz, 360's weak, PS3 POWERLORD

Nice. That alittle showoff for Sony and more sales. :D

 

A shame that US Air Force is useless. You might have the most feared planes and most of them, but how the he|| can they be useful if all of them are on drill battling a fake Russian invasion?

 

;)

lol i know what they are doing now, they are all going to get ace combat 6 and have the biggest LAN party in the world! :D

This doesn't sound right... Console processors are heavily stripped down versions of their PC counterparts (hence a PS3 is cheaper than some PC processors), and the forces have access to the latest Cray PCs.  The US forces always have quirky recruitment campaigns, I suspect this just is a ploy to recruit 300 people..join us ..get a free PS3, type thing.   Smacks of that story of the Iraq army trying to map out the world in detail using 20 PS2s... yeah right....

@PerezStation3
Why would anyone wan't a 360? It has nothing you want.

@KanZolo

LOL. Good one :-)

Of course they'll be used for gaming.  You can't tell me that the soldiers wont smuggle games in to play, without telling their superiors.

lol thats cool

psn id: gingo... the cell processor really is a beast and if it can be used for all the recent things we've been hearing e.g. making black holes collide etc. it should be imense for games when developers learn how to use it to its full potential

I don't know, the ps3 might be TOO powerfull for the airforce. LOL!!!! Anywho, Thats cool they never did that with the 360! LOL

PS3 Can Simulate Black Hole Collisions?

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/2682.html

 

They say 'its highly plausible that the raw computing power per dollar that the PS3 offers, is significantly higher than anything else on the market today!'

I see PS3 planes in the future, oe maybe a PS3 bomb, or..... you know there are way to many things the PS3 can do

Cell is helping the world?!? O_O

thats soo awesome. and its crazy. Playstation 3 helped secure are safty! lol sooo those xbox fanboys cant say its cuz they are patriotic that they only get 360's! lol. Sonys doin more to help america.. then america's doing to help america (micro)

i dont get it, why dont IBM just offer cells? i mean for programing and stuff, ps3 waste about 3 on linux and xmb so its much weaker then cells full power for calculations. anyways it kinda sucks i taught they were going for "cell of the future" thing thats why they held that cell programing convention thing i think.

All i gotta say is WTF?!?!??!!!!!!!The US Air Force,will surely have a lot more entertainment now.@ ^^^^

Well,last i heard,was that IBM is still in the development stage of PROPER Cell Processors,remember the one in the ps3 is a verrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy stripped down version,with just the guts.IBM has plans to make new super computers,regular chips,and all sorts of crazy stuff using the Cell architecture,but as i said b4 they're still in the developing stage,so don't expect your pc to be powered by Cell any time soon.