Even if you don't institutionalize that across the board in a military, doing that in a limited number of units and then comparing differences between the centralized and distributed procurement selections might be a good tool to flag potential areas where centralized procurement might be making the wrong call.
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This has been in place for quite some time.
OK? I bet it's news to a lot of people.
I just assumed it was a loot and repair system like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
This is just, like, the Counterstrike loadout store but in real life.
When I'm king, my army is going to work on Gun Game rules. Whenever our guys cap someone on the other side, their gun randomly changes.
Brave1 has been around for a long time, if you follow Ukraine.
It's important to note that you pay in points sent out regularly or based on confirmed kills, not money, and AFAIK they only sell purely military gear, both of which are important in what is (sadly) still a very corrupt country.
I feel like this helps the units respond quicker to whatever counter they are running into on the other side of the line, so if they are using jammers send us fiber optics, if they are using counter weapons send us FPVs and so on and so forth, kind of genius to be honest.
You don't have to wait for a decision tree of officers if you can just order a different kind of drone.
This is meta, a democratic structure in the military of the democratic nation fighting authoritarianism.