Ukraine gamifies combat, as soldiers start killing for points and rewards • FRANCE 24 English

It’s a system designed to boost battlefield performance. Ukrainian pilots steer a drone with controllers via a monitor, drop munitions, or crash directly into targets. Their recordings are uploaded onto a program called Brave 1, which are then verified and converted into points. The more soldiers killed or equipment destroyed, the more points are racked up. Troops can then convert points into new weapons or equipment for their units. Many are not hesitating to pick up the controllers. Everyone is motivated to kill the targets first and foremost. It’s interesting to criticize, but I think if they were in our place, they would understand what it’s about. There’s a war going on in our country, a war of destruction. So, there’s no mercy here. for the head of the program. Many of his generation now serving in the same unit grew up with smartphones, making the transition to drone piloting easy. The idea behind this program is that in the first stage, we started awarding a certain number of bonuses or points for each enemy hit, tank destroyed or damaged, Russian enemy infantry killed or wounded, and aircraft or helicopter destroyed. It is something like tokens or coins. Critics say the program risks trivializing the violence of warfare. But the Ukrainian army claims the scheme has spurred competition among units and improved the military’s ability to verify data on the destruction of Russian targets and boost battlefield awareness. touches the

In Ukraine, the war is increasingly dominated by drones, but a new programme launched by Ukraine’s military is now awarding points to pilots who steer drones with controllers, crash into targets and upload recordings of their killings. The effort is part of a broader trend in which tech influences how war is raged, with even the head of its programme saying they had created the “first military Amazon”. Story by Rachael Griffiths.
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  7. Ukraine cant afford to pay its dead soldiers, but use the money for kit kats for these soldier.. tell me how they cant properly fund the war without telling me.

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