Instapundit linked up this brief note on the latest in vehicle protection gizmos:

The U.S. Army has discovered a remote control gun turret that works, and cannot get enough of them. The army wants over 9,000 CROWS (common remotely operated weapon stations), but is only getting 15 a month. There should be about a thousand CROWS in service by the end of the year.
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The gunner is inside the vehicle, checking out the surroundings on a computer monitor (with night vision and telephoto capabilities).

As the article notes, remote turrets have been around in one form or another for quite some time*. See ma, video games can be useful!

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* The first one I can remember reading about is a dorsal turret for early model B-25s. The optical system was so bad the gunners usually got airsick. B-17s used a similar system, with similar success. B-29s used a vastly improved system with one of the first digital computers ever fitted to an aircraft. As far as I know, most aircraft turrets used since then followed essentially the same pattern, although eventually they switched to radar guidance and computer control.