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.
Kidnap Ukrainian’s children and put them into sweatshops building drones to kill their families, real class act this civilization
Careful, if you start teaching too much, some bored kid is gonna attach some “fireworks” and fly it into the Kremlin. 😏
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.
Positively dystopian.
Positively american.
It’s literally Russian you clown.
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.
Oh noooo!!! Scary Russians!!! jfc.
The indoctrination system in USA is completely controlled by the MIC. Almost all of the R&D is funded for violence. This starts way before college. Probably every kid will be working for the military at some point. Drones are just the tip of the iceberg:
- https://www.army.mil/article/283666/tafuna_high_school_wins_army_jrotc_drone_championship
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14120765/teal-drones-startup-supply-military.html
- https://mavicpilots.com/threads/drone-program-in-highschool.141280/
- https://crossflightskysolutions.com/starting-a-high-school-drone-program-crossflight-sky-solutions-essential-checklist/
- https://www.thedronegirl.com/2024/06/14/high-school-drone/
- https://www.airgineers.co.uk/
Zero surprise that OP is overt imperial propaganda.
Hey guess what? Both of these can be bad. I’d argue that the case in “Russia” is a bit worse, seeing as this is actually not Russia, but Crimea. That said, the militarization of children is fucking awful anywhere.
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… 🤷♂️
🤡 🖕 💩
Gotta wake up to the reality that USA is doing the exact same thing.
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”
Are we forgetting that the US has JROTC in schools? Literally training kids for the military…
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/
Ummm no! Our drones have crosses on them because Jesus is king.
That’s very interesting TIL
Teaching kids war is good in any case. Teaching kids that war is good is bad.
Yeah tbh I agree with you. These lessons should be left for adults no matter how you look at this issue.
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
Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.
Radio Free Europe is literally US propaganda. This is like thinking the National Enquirer is “News You Can Trust”
Links to Radio Free Europe articles get posted way too often on Lemmy. It’s just RT for the US government.
I don’t think that’s a completely fair comparison. They are both state tools for establishing power through narratives. They are both heavily biased.
But RT is Orwellian in that it just makes shit up and has no respect for even appearing credible. While RFE/RFL tends to be biased towards publishing pro-western stories, but they don’t tend to make shit up from scratch.
Of course, who knows what the fuck is happening there right now, my analysis is pre-Trump 2024.
It really is not cause nothing is as blatant as ruzi media
It only looks that way from inside the imperial bubble.
Propaganda is propaganda.
All bad things are equally bad?
Yes, most people think that lies in service to violent control is bad.
Surely there are better sources of information than the Donald Trump administration’s state media. Unless they think DOGE installed sycophants everywhere but there.
Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.
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
What a tasteless take.
It’s bitter, not tasteless.
lmao yeah)
