1. A weapon mounted system mounted on a rifle and including a smart phone like gesture based interface for controlling the weapon mounted system, the weapon mounted system comprising: a gesture interface; memory including a gesture interpreter module; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the gesture interface and the memory and for executing instructions in the gesture interpreter module to perform operations comprising: receiving a gesture input via the gesture interface, wherein gesture input is a predefined hand gesture on the gesture interface; interpreting the gesture input as one or more predefined commands; and controlling one or more inputs and/or outputs of the weapon mounted system based on the interpreted one or more predefined commands.