Since 1is September, a new school subject entered Russian schools: development, production and operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
According to the Parlamentarnaïa Gazeta, the Parliament newspaper, this new “science” will be taught in specialized classes or groups “in more than 500 schools, as well as in the practical training centers of 30 higher education establishments”. “More than 2,500 thousand teachers are already trained for this purpose,” continues the newspaper.
This initiative is part of a real “national project”, launched in the summer of 2023 during the war in Ukraine. It provides, as indicated by the Russian official press, several federal programs, including the financing plan, to the tune of 300 billion rubles (nearly 3 billion euros), spread out from 2024 to 2026, was approved by the government on the recommendation of Vladimir Putin. Training students, sometimes from a very young age, is part of these programs.
However, as indicated by the Komsomolskaya Pravda, to be able to train all these future Russian drone pilots, we must first train their teachers. This popular newspaper close to the Kremlin visited one of the
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