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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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[–] ChidiAnagonye@infosec.pub 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Careful, if you start teaching too much, some bored kid is gonna attach some "fireworks" and fly it into the Kremlin. 😏

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Unfortunately that's useless, the people needing to be hit are all kinda distributed over all of Russia, and the punishment is severe.

But teaching children to build tools for modern war is an absolute positive. Possessing an AK is no good for a revolution today anyway, while with small drones you can do a lot.