Steam Hit Becomes Military Drone Trainer

⊲ Halldale ⊳ Adrian Ruiz-Langan, who runs dual-use technology company Tarkus Simulation and True Players, has turned drone pilot training into a game to sustain motivation across 50 to 100 hours of simulator time. Finding racing simulators tedious, his team added miniguns, rocket launchers and enemies, creating Firehawk FPV, which has around 25,000 Steam users and won the Serious Games Challenge. After discovering Ukraine was its second-largest market, the company began building a military trainer on the same technology, teaching tactics and doctrine alongside stick skills.
◂ Firehawk FPV finding a large Ukrainian audience suggests commercial games may now act as informal readiness pipelines for drone warfare. ▸
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