""These young people who are here are ready to destroy the enemy," General Johan Hernández Láre, the Venezuelan army's commanding general, says in Spanish during one clip published on Friday. The camera pans to show several uniformed personnel standing to attention, before one cadet volunteers to demonstrate a simulator. An operator helps him fire up the screen, which appears to show a level-select menu."
"The menu resembles that of "FPV Kamikaze Drone," a video game developed by the Russian firm HFM Games. Copies are sold on the online marketplace platform Steam for $3.99. The similarities continue once the virtual mission loads. The cadet is seen flying his virtual FPV drone toward a target at a building complex. The user interface elements, engine physics, computer graphics, and the visual appearance of the payload on the virtual drone match those found on "FPV Kamikaze Drone.""
Venezuela's Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army promoted FPV drone simulators presented as arcade-like stations with screens, trackballs, joysticks, and remote controllers. Promotional clips show cadets performing virtual attack maneuvers while uniformed personnel stand at attention and a commanding general declares readiness to destroy the enemy. The simulator software bears striking resemblance to the video game "FPV Kamikaze Drone," developed by Russian firm HFM Games and sold on Steam for $3.99. Visuals, user interface elements, engine physics, and payload appearance in the simulator match the commercial game. The promotions occurred amid heightened US–Venezuela tensions.
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