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A computer game-style drone attack system has gone “viral” among Ukrainian military units and is being extended to reconnaissance, artillery and logistics operations, the nation’s first deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has told the Guardian.
Drone teams competing for points under the “Army of Drones Bonus System” killed or wounded 18,000 Russian soldiers in September, with 400 drone units now taking part in the competition, up from 95 in August, Ukrainian officials said.
The system, which launched more than a year ago, rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be exchanged to buy more weapons in an “Amazon-for-war” online store called Brave1 filled with more than 100 different drones, autonomous vehicles and other drone war material. It has a leaderboard topped by teams with names such as Achilles and Phoenix.
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This is really cool, but describing it as ‘going viral’ doesn’t make any sense.
I’m glad they’re performing as well as they are in a war for survival, but the gamification of killing makes me very uncomfortable.
The gamification of killing is nothing new, the highest honors a country can bestow are usually for killing other people. Even without handing out little achievement trinkets, the concept of gaining honor for slaughtering your enemies goes way back.
This is war, it is how it has always been.
This came out in 1992
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Obviously it’s hard to complain when this stuff is being used to protect Ukrainian independence, but man this shit is terrifying. I am not looking forward to Americans or Chinese getting their hands on this tech.
the extension of the points-based system comes amid warnings that increasing reliance on drone warfare is not something Nato countries should follow because Russian defences against such unmanned aerial attacks have become formidable
And right, good point. NATO should definitely just ignore the most effective weapon of the era. 🙄
Russian defences against such unmanned aerial attacks have become formidable
I’m hearing we need to step up our drone game
Radiation seeking missiles are a thing, why not radiation seeking drones?
Im constantly hearing of blown up and burning russian military infrastructure, so yeah…
Also there is no realistic defending against fiber drones, so how does this even make sense?
I saw some guy Ukraine that has a Solar powered battery spinning a long stretch of barbed wire to cut the fiber optic drones so they do have some defense, I don’t know how effective they are though
“You see, Ivan. Vhen zees drone take out all close target, our defenses are formidable! Because eez harder to hit inland target. Vee can speen dis to say our defenses improve over time. Fewer successful missions, Ivan! Western media eat it up! You see!”
Oooh! This sounds fun! Where do I sign up as a drone operator for the Ukrainian Army?
That would be hilarious if Ukraine pulled an Ender’s Game and
Spoiler
The drones were real.
“Computer game-style drone attack system” means a drone attack system in the style of a computer game. It is real. They gamified the killing.
Hint – it is real.
Release game for free on Steam. Surprise! All war objectives complete in 3 days.
I could see this as training data for automated drone intercept systems. A swarm of 20 pilotless drones cresting a cops of trees in perfect synchronicity far faster than a chinese sync’d drone show would make any ground-pounder shit their pants.
