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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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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 week 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... 🤷‍♂️

🤡 🖕 💩

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week 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"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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/

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's very interesting TIL

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Gotta wake up to the reality that USA is doing the exact same thing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Positively dystopian.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Positively american.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's literally Russian you clown.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Propaganda is propaganda.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

All bad things are equally bad?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, most people think that lies in service to violent control is bad.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

It only looks that way from inside the imperial bubble.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

What a tasteless take.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It’s bitter, not tasteless.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

lmao yeah)

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