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.

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.

I just assumed it was a loot and repair system like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

This has been in place for quite some time.