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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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[–] ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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/

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

Ummm no! Our drones have crosses on them because Jesus is king.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

That's very interesting TIL