alt Hacker NewsI would love to see a reference for that!
AFAIK the rounds shot to kills ratio is still north of ten thousand in most modern conflicts.
I’ve heard anecdotally that drone operators in Ukraine have a ratio of about ten drones per kill and rack up multiple kills per day every day. Supposedly the pilots “burn out” due to the psychological impacts.
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References for psych conditioning of modern soldiers and impacts on reintegration: (for latter links may have to read between the lines)
[0] https://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE00/Kilner00.html#_edn3
[1] https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/THE-SCIENCE-OF-CREATI...
[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797615579274
[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018720815605703
[4] https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/this-is-how-...
[5] https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2016/7/29/reflectio...
[6] https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2016/7/29/reflectio...
[7] https://mn.gov/governor/newsroom/press-releases/?id=1055-441...
[8] https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
[9] https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Marksmanship/...
[10] https://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/FM3-22.9(03...
[11] https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2011/04/3...
Yea and it also does not help that the people they are killing are just random people that where picked up, thrown in a van, and driven to the front-line to be meat shields.