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Video YT Video from Above Link: Browsing Brave1 Market - Ukraine’s New Online Marketplace for Drones, Kit & Equipment

Portal Brave 1 Marketplace Portal

Articles Imagine Amazon — but for combat drones. Ukraine built it. Commanders log in, browse hundreds of drone models, pay with brigade credits and receive delivery in 5-10 days. Successful strikes earn bonus credits. No other military in the world does this — NYT.

Gamified War in Ukraine: Points, Drones, and the New Moral Economy of Killing

A few hours later, “ePoints” appear in their account and can be redeemed on Brave1 Market, a government platform already dubbed an “Amazon for war,” where frontline units select equipment using combat points rather than credit cards.

Ukraine’s ‘Amazon for war’ will soon let soldiers buy weapons with points earned for evacuating wounded comrades

A Choice of Deadly Drones Is Only a Few Clicks Away for Ukrainian Troops

Ukraine has created online marketplaces to let units select their own drones, a break from generations of standardized and centralized weapons procurement.

Militaries have long standardized their arsenals from unit to unit and fighter to fighter, simplifying mass production, training and supply lines. Fighting in the age of drones, Ukraine has had to turn that logic around. It is expanding the variety of drones as widely as possible, and allowing troops to choose their own weapons, rather than have them selected by faraway officials.

Inside the military marketplace helping Ukraine to replenish its frontline more quickly

It may look like an online shop, but the Brave1 Marketplace has been designed for war.

Created by Ukraine’s state-funded defence innovation programme, Brave1, Ukrainian military units log on to the site to order kit directly from Ukrainian manufacturers to where it is needed most.

One soldier, who wanted to be known by his callsign ‘Maliuk’, told me: “It’s like Amazon for the military.”

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