Russian schools began to buy unmanned aerial vehicles for teaching childrenwrites investigative journalism website Important Storiestaking their data from the public procurement website.

The journalists of the site in question found evidence of the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles in the amount of at least five schools in different areas. “These same schools were distinguished by the general militarization of the educational process,” the site notes.

IN Saint Petersburg for example, two schools (525 and 583) will spend one million rubles on “training UAVs»

School 525 will provide tools “for self-assembly of quadcopters”. From September 1, the Vazne Istorii website writes, the school will launch the UAV Design and Programming program for schoolchildren aged 12-15. At the same time, the students have already handed over the constructions to the Russian army at the forefront and met with teachers from the occupied Mariupol.

The website notes that a comprehensive school in Yakutsk will buy a Chinese drone DJI Mini 3 Pro. This particular drone is being used by both sides in war in Ukraine for recognition. Similar drone buying and training programs exist at his 50th school. Kaliningrad and in the 1st secondary school Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Recently the Russian President Vladimir Putin said that drone piloting courses should be introduced into educational programs, including in schools.

“I fully support the proposals of our companies so that children, starting from school, learn to operate, assemble and design unmanned aerial vehicles. I am sure that, firstly, it will engage children in useful and interesting activities, distract them from what they should not be doing, and secondly, this so-called early professional orientation will benefit the country in the long run,” Putin said. .

Source: Novaya Gazeta Europe, Important Stories