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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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[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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.

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.

Seems to remind me of Hitler Youth for some reason... 🤷‍♂️

🤡 🖕 💩

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Gave me brave brew world vibes since they are essentially raising them up to be the foot soldier class. It would be even easier to draft them

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Radio Free Europe is literally US propaganda. This is like thinking the National Enquirer is "News You Can Trust"

[-] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Positively dystopian.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

Positively american.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No. We have our own dystopia, our kids get shot in the classroom. We don’t have them assemble the guns to kill other people.

Big difference.

[-] HelterSkeletor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's literally Russian you clown.

[-] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Links to Radio Free Europe articles get posted way too often on Lemmy. It's just RT for the US government.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It really is not cause nothing is as blatant as ruzi media

[-] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Propaganda is propaganda.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Kidnap Ukrainian's children and put them into sweatshops building drones to kill their families, real class act this civilization

[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social -3 points 1 month ago

When American kids enter the fight expect the coolest under fire mother fucking soldiers you ever seen

An entire generation of kids raised in a war zone of school shootings

They’re already trained

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

What a tasteless take.

[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 4 points 1 month ago

It’s bitter, not tasteless.

[-] romantired@shibanu.app 1 points 1 month ago

lmao yeah)

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