The US Army has created an analogue of YouTube for the military.

This service, which largely repeats the functionality of YouTube, even got the name similar - MilTube. According to the developers of the service, this resource is a safer and more secure counterpart of YouTube. In general, it is understandable - the military has always been afraid to give out any secrets, and videos showing the destruction of human settlements in Iraq of various operations of the US military in other countries are not welcomed by the highest echelons of power. In order for the military to have the opportunity to please relatives and friends, and each other too, with interesting videos, and this resource was created.

“Video is an extremely powerful medium of information dissemination. MilTube is an opportunity to share video materials with each other, but only for the US military, ”said one of the initiators of the MilTube creation Justin Filler, describing the service.
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It is worth noting that MilTube is not only a video service, this resource also includes other elements of the Web 2.0 toolkit. So, besides the video service itself, you can find sections such as MilBook, MilWiki, and MilBlog here. In general, the section names speak for themselves, there is hardly any need to describe. The military hopes that this service will help avoid the leakage of valuable information, albeit random, as a result of the use of third-party services by military personnel.

Interestingly, this service was developed not by third parties, but again by the army organization, MilTech. This is an IT structure that is part of the overall US military system. At the moment, the service has access to the military, the creators of the service, civilian employees of the US Army. Total registered 88500 people, which is not so little.

The military believe that the MilTube functionality will allow the service to be used for training purposes as well, so in the future, training videos will be posted here, including those created by colleagues from other countries. This, according to management, will help reduce the cost of training professional military.

The service supports a number of functions common for such resources, for example, channels, categories, tags. A variety of video and audio formats are supported, so that the military does not have difficulty downloading their own video.

It is a pity, it is not announced how much was spent on the creation of the system. It would be very interesting to find out the exact amount ...

Via cnet