Hacker News

I 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.

calgoo 15 hours ago [ - ]

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.

ninjagoo 13 hours ago [ - ]

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/...