Marine aviators’ new weapon: the iPad

We’ve written before about the Army’s experiments with how it might use smartphones or tablet computers on the battlefield, but it’s starting to look behind the curve: Consumer-grade mobile devices are already in service elsewhere in the military, including the war zone. Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson use Apple iPads — a whole crate of ‘em, by the looks of it — to help manage geographical information in the ship’s combat information center.

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