2026年2月6日 / 美国东部时间上午11:57 / CBS新闻
伦敦报道 — 全球玩家现在可以在家购买并玩到乌克兰武装部队开发和使用的简化版第一人称无人机训练项目。这款游戏从战场训练工具演变为家庭娱乐产品，这是一个显著的首创，并且直接与乌克兰正在进行的击退俄罗斯四年全面入侵的努力相关联。
“乌克兰战斗无人机模拟器”(UFDS)可在网上购买，售价约30美元。它具有同样超逼真的物理效果和飞行控制，帮助乌克兰无人机飞行员发现并摧毁俄罗斯坦克、导弹发射车和部队。完整模拟器可供乌克兰武装部队所有成员免费使用。
无人机战斗俱乐部学院（Drone Fight Club Academy）是培训乌克兰军方无人机飞行员的机构，其首席执行官弗拉德·普拉辛(Vlad Plaksin)是UFDS的主要开发者之一，也是该项目的推动力量。该学院自战争初期成立以来已培训了5000多名乌克兰军方无人机飞行员，并于去年与美国空军合作在德国拉姆施泰因空军基地进行了一次训练课程。
普拉辛告诉CBS新闻，将军事项目转化为电子游戏的一个目标是培训年轻乌克兰人驾驶无人机，”给他们一个不用扛着步枪上战壕的可能”。
游戏截图：
乌克兰战斗无人机模拟器
乌克兰战斗无人机模拟器显示玩家在模拟无人机撞击俄罗斯卡车前的第一人称视角。
在战争期间，乌克兰年轻人对与无人机相关事物的兴趣大幅上升，这在很大程度上要归功于该国的军方无人机飞行员，普拉辛称他们已获得英雄般的地位。
“大多数年轻人想飞行，想打击[俄罗斯目标]，想在这个新的机器人世界中成长，”他向CBS新闻表示。
游戏开发者称这是”领先的超逼真第一人称视角无人机训练器的公共改编版，基于乌克兰前线的经验教训开发”，让玩家有机会”像前线飞行员一样学习飞行，执行真实世界的任务场景，并感受现代FPV战争的刺激”。
游戏以超逼真的细节呈现，包括在针对俄罗斯目标的战斗任务中驾驶不同类型的无人机，还有天气条件和其他变量，旨在提供足够真实的体验，让任何人都能学习和练习无人机战争的基础知识。
有许多游戏提供类似的FPV战争体验，包括驾驶坦克、驾驶战斗机和指挥潜艇。但UFDS是第一个直接从军事软件开发而来的游戏。
伦理问题？
尽管世界各地的武装部队可能已经使用了许多游戏作为教学工具，但这些游戏首先是作为游戏开发的。UFDS则颠覆了这一模式，将真实世界的军事训练工具带入人们家中的屏幕。
普拉辛承认，围绕创建这样一款让年轻人以如此逼真的方式假装驾驶致命无人机的游戏存在伦理担忧，称这是”一个非常敏感的问题”，但指出在这方面该游戏并不独特。
“还有许多其他模拟器做着同样的事情，我们并没有开创什么新东西，”他说。
模拟无人机投弹后视角
乌克兰战斗无人机模拟器
乌克兰战斗无人机模拟器截图显示模拟无人机在俄罗斯战壕上空投下炸弹后释放的视角。
UFDS也不是第一个被用作军事伪招募工具的电子游戏。
2002年推出的”美国陆军”系列由美国陆军开发，被广泛认为是第一个公开使用电子游戏推动国家军队招募的案例。虽然该系列远不如UFDS逼真，但目的类似。
俄罗斯会利用吗？
普拉辛表示，乌克兰游戏的核心是让人们获得”无人机基础知识，同时我们尽量确保最大的安全性，不分享敏感信息”。
为避免泄露俄罗斯军方可能用来训练自己飞行员的细节，公开版本的UFDS与无人机战斗俱乐部学院用于训练乌克兰军方操作员的版本存在重大差异。
普拉辛向CBS新闻表示，这些差异”主要在战术层面”。”它提供了你需要的一切，但不会给你战术。我认为这是版本之间的主要区别。”
他说，其中一些差异只是简化了游戏玩家可能觉得枯燥的部分，比如玩家可能不想花30分钟驾驶虚拟无人机到达目标。因此游戏设计得更具街机风格，同时保持高度逼真的控制和用户体验。
这意味着”对任务的理解较少，对长距离飞行的理解较少”，而这是训练无人机飞行员的关键部分。
“当你驾驶真实无人机时，你需要观察区域并对照地图进行判断，”普拉辛说，”在任务中这非常重要。在街机游戏中这并不重要，我们不会将其纳入，因为这对玩家没有吸引力。”
UFDS仍然是一个非常小众的游戏，每天只有约50人在线玩。这类详细的军事模拟游戏通常拥有少量忠实玩家群体，很少能闯入更广泛的游戏社区。
但普拉辛正试图改变这一点，扩大游戏吸引力。他正在组织一场锦标赛，希望能”最大限度地提高游戏玩家数量”并鼓励玩家之间的竞争。
Ukrainian drone pilot training program turned into video game so anyone can “feel the rush” of modern warfare
February 6, 2026 / 11:57 AM EST / CBS News
London — Gamers around the world can now buy and play at home a pared-down version of a first-person drone training program developed and used by the Ukrainian armed forces. The game’s evolution — from battlefield training tool to home entertainment — is a notable first, and it is tied directly to Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to repel Russia’s four-year, full-scale invasion.
“Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator” (UFDS) is available to buy online for about $30. It features the same ultra-realistic physics and piloting controls that have helped teach Ukrainian drone pilots to seek out and destroy Russian tanks, missile launchers and troops. The Full Simulator is available, for free, to all members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use.
Vlad Plaksin, CEO of the Drone Fight Club Academy, a facility that trains Ukrainian military drone pilots, was one of the lead developers and driving forces behind UFDS. The academy has trained more than 5,000 Ukrainian military drone pilots since it was established early in the war, and it collaborated last year with the U.S. Air Force for a training session at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Plaksin told CBS News one objective in turning the military program into a video game is to train young Ukrainians to fly drones, to “give them a possibility not to go to the trench with rifles.”
A screenshot from the “Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator” video game shows the first-person view perspective of a player moments before the simulated drone impacts a Russian truck. Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator
Interest in anything drone-related among young Ukrainians has soared during the war, thanks largely to the country’s military drone pilots, whom Plaksin said had achieved heroic status.
“Most young people want to fly, want to hit [Russian targets], want to grow up in this new world of robotics,” he told CBS News.
The game’s creators call it a “public adaptation of a leading ultra-realistic FPV [first person view] drone trainer, built on lessons from the Ukrainian front line,” offering players an opportunity to “learn to fly like a front-line pilot, take on real-world mission scenarios, and feel the rush of modern FPV warfare.”
In hyperrealistic detail, it includes different types of drones to pilot on combat missions against Russian targets, with weather conditions and other variables that aim to provide an experience realistic enough for anyone to learn and practice the basics of drone warfare.
There are many games that offer similar FPV warfare experiences, including driving tanks, piloting fighter jets, and commanding submarines. But UFDS is the first to be developed directly from military software.
Ethical concerns?
While many games have likely been used by armed forces around the world as teaching tools, they have been developed as games first. UFDS flips that model around, bringing a real-world military training tool to screens in people’s homes.
Plaksin acknowledged ethical concerns around creating a game that allows young people to pretend they’re piloting deadly drones in such a realistic way, calling it “a very sensitive question,” but noting that the game is not unique in this regard.
“There are many other simulators which do the same, and we are not opening something new,” he said.
The view from a simulated drone just after it releases a bomb over a Russian trench, as seen in a screenshot from the Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator video game. Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator
UFDS is not the first video game to be used as a pseudo recruitment tool by a military, either.
The “America’s Army” series, launched in 2002 and developed by the U.S. Army, is widely seen as the first overt use of video games to drive recruitment by a national military. While the series was nowhere near as realistic as UFDS, it served a similar purpose.
Could Russia take advantage?
Plaksin says the Ukrainian game, at its core, is a tool for people to gain “a basic knowledge for the drones, but also at the same time, we try to do it maximum safety, for not sharing the sensitive information.”
To avoid revealing details that Russia’s military could potentially use to train its own pilots, there are significant differences between the publicly available version of UFDS and the version used at the Drone Fight Club Academy to train Ukrainian military operators.
Ukrainian soldiers with a drone unit from the 24th Mechanized Brigade prepare a Ukrainian-designed R18 octocopter UAV during a training exercise in eastern Ukraine, in early October 2023. CBS News
Those differences are “mostly about tactics,” Plaksin told CBS News. “It gives you everything that you need, but it will not give you the tactics. I think it’s the main difference between the versions.”
He said some of that just involves paring down what, for gamers, might be the more tedious parts of drone warfare. Gamers may not want to spend 30 minutes flying their virtual drone to reach an objective, for instance. So the gameplay is deliberately made more arcade-style, while maintaining highly realistic controls and user experience.
This means that there is “less understanding of missions, less understanding of how to fly for a huge distance” which is a vital part of training drone pilots.
“When you fly on the [real] drones, you see the area and you need to read the map and compare it with what you see,” Plaksin said. “In missions, it’s very important. In arcade games, it’s not important, and we don’t put it inside because it will not be interesting for the players.”
UFDS is still a very niche game, with only around 50 people playing online daily. Such detailed military simulation games often garner small but loyal followings, and rarely break into the wider gaming community.
But Plaksin is trying to change that, and broaden appeal. He’s helping to organize a championship he hopes will “maximise the level of people playing the game” and encourage competition between players.
