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Submission + - How drones and video-game techniques are coming together in Ukraine's war (economist.com) 1

cmseagle writes: A recent report from The Economist describes the evolution of Ukraine's drone war, and the adoption of mechanics that would be familiar to any Call of Duty player:

Gamification came to the drone war in August 2024, when the Army of Drones, a government-backed initiative to acquire drones for the armed forces, launched a “bonus” system ... Once a drone kill is logged, identified and confirmed, it wins a number of points depending on the military value of the item destroyed.

A drone operator who destroys a T-90M tank–Russia’s most advanced combat vehicle–with a disposable First Person View (FPV) drone gets enough points to make his unit eligible to receive 15 more (which would cost the armed forces around $10,000 in total). The system gives operators an incentive to find high-value targets and means that the units scoring kills are rewarded with prompt resupply.


Comment \o/ (Score 1) 30

> Will it consider spam a subscription?
I've never understood the reasoning behind offering an unsubscribe alternative when trying to mark an email as spam.

> How about email where there's no unsubscribe link?

> Whilst they're at it, how about an option to block noreply emails?
  - "Hi, we talk, you listen without replying" - uhh, no.

Comment Re: AI? Really? (Score 1) 53

Yeap, I'm taking about accepting the referees' performance retrospectively.

Even an incorrect decision by the ref applies to the players during the game and then later, with crowd-sourcing or other referees' analysis of the video for contested calls, the ref is scored on their ability to make the correct call in real time.

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