The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.
Soldiers have to download the video footage taken by their drones confirming the kill to the military’s Delta communication and situational awareness system.
Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.
“In short, you destroy, you get the points, you buy a drone using the points,” Fedorov said.
He pointed to the accomplishments of Magyar’s Birds, one of Ukraine’s elite drone warfare units. It has run up a score of over 16,298 points, enough to buy 500 first-person view drones used in daytime operations, 500 drones for night operations, 100 Vampire drones and 40 reconnaissance drones, Fedorov said.
The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.
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