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In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones (www.rferl.org)
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Russia will soon teach high school students how to build and fly drones, which have become a key weapon in the war between Moscow and Kyiv.

“Right now, there’s a huge demand from both the state and society for unmanned aerial systems,” said Mikhail Lutskiy, head of educational projects at Geoscan Group, the leading drone manufacturer in Russia.

Russia last year launched a nationwide project called Unmanned Aerial Systems to promote both the domestic production of drones and preparation of drone pilots and other specialists starting with high school students.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Thats what soviets did too. There were classes for gun assembly and shooting practice and its not a new thing.

I don't think military skill prep is a bad thing for small countries but coming from current ruzi administration is certainly is a bit on the nose. As in "training kids to terrorize country they invaded with semi-autonomous remote weapons" just doesn't ring the same as "military prep in case of invasion"

[–] ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Are we forgetting that the US has JROTC in schools? Literally training kids for the military...

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes and they literally have a drone competition. It's the exact same thing as russia.

https://www.ncatech.org/faa_events/2024-national-jrotc-all-service-aerial-drone-championship/

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Teaching kids war is good in any case. Teaching kids that war is good is bad.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah tbh I agree with you. These lessons should be left for adults no matter how you look at this issue.