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Ukrainian women have started learning a crucial war skill: how to fly a drone
NPR ^ | November 26, 2022 | ASHLEY WESTERMAN

Posted on 11/27/2022 7:07:30 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Ukrainian women have played a crucial part in their country's resistance to Russia's full-scale invasion. Now, a new school is training women to play a vital new role.

The Female Pilots of Ukraine is the country's first school dedicated to solely teaching women — both civilians as well as those serving in Ukraine's security forces — how to fly drones.

Both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries have been using drones in the war in Ukraine, for reconnaissance and fighting. Ukraine has many women in the military but they rarely work as drone pilots, according to the school's administrators.

The school, which started in Kyiv in August and is privately run, aims to change that.

"We all realize that this is a war of the 21st century," Tatyana Kuznetsova, one of the school's first enrollees, tells NPR during a class in Kyiv's giant Pyrohiv Park.

The seven-year police veteran says she decided to enroll in the free classes to learn new skills "just in case."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


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To: Pollard

They didn’t make any movies about the Cold War or its conclusion.


21 posted on 11/27/2022 8:26:51 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Timber Rattler

Bkmk


22 posted on 11/27/2022 8:30:13 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Timber Rattler

None of them were “needed”. Every one of those photos were programs done for PR and social reasons.


23 posted on 11/27/2022 8:35:47 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino
So Molly Pitcher didn't exist, that's what you're actually claiming?

And I'm pretty sure that the USAAF Women's Air Service Pilots will be surprised to hear that they were just PR, as well as women Israeli soldiers.

24 posted on 11/27/2022 8:38:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler
Personally, I believe this is a great idea. However, there are some issues that need to be addressed.

Without a doubt, these drones have changed the battlefield. A small drone with a shape charge bomblet can take out armored vehicles. Fox holes and trenches are subject to drone attacks.

Here's a couple issues:

Drone pilots are clearly combatants and legitimate targets. As combatants, they should officially join the military and wear a uniform.

Most of the drones have limited range. The drone pilots will have to "work" near the FLOT and could come under attack at any time.

25 posted on 11/27/2022 8:42:58 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To: Timber Rattler

He says he recognized the need for more women drone pilots months ago after struggling to help a friend who was looking to get in contact with a female drone pilot for a feminist organization in the United Kingdom.

Feminist drone pilots. Talk about niche markets.


26 posted on 11/27/2022 8:45:01 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: moovova

You like touching the third rail don’t you. :^)


27 posted on 11/27/2022 8:47:52 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Timber Rattler

Nice coats they are wearing. Good propaganda photo.


28 posted on 11/27/2022 8:49:08 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Timber Rattler

Third image you posted is the “1st Petrograd women’s death battalion”. Ironically, they’re Russians.

https://20thcenturywarfare.wordpress.com/1914-21/1st-petrograd-women-death-battalion/


29 posted on 11/27/2022 8:50:37 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: EEGator

Don’t those drones require to be charged NY electricity?

Something Ukraine doesn’t have much of now.


30 posted on 11/27/2022 8:59:25 AM PST by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your Trump shared a post on soci it all begins to make sense)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
"Who say I can't fly this mofo drone."


31 posted on 11/27/2022 9:10:12 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

rofl!!!


32 posted on 11/27/2022 9:32:56 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: MNDude

Maybe they use evil hydrocarbons...


33 posted on 11/27/2022 9:40:51 AM PST by EEGator
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To: moovova

ROTFLMAO!


34 posted on 11/27/2022 9:50:38 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: moovova

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35 posted on 11/27/2022 9:53:41 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Timber Rattler

They’ll get plenty of chances to put their skills to work.


36 posted on 11/27/2022 10:32:22 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Molly Pitcher existed ... wasn’t actually needed. Same with WASPS. A lot of that was Pr and finding something to do with women who wish they were men.


37 posted on 11/27/2022 10:59:50 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Timber Rattler

And it’s not at all a fact that “Molly Pitcher” existed.


38 posted on 11/27/2022 11:01:21 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino
Molly Pitcher existed ... wasn’t actually needed. Same with WASPS. A lot of that was Pr and finding something to do with women who wish they were men.

Wow. Not only are you sexist but totally ignorant too.

39 posted on 11/27/2022 11:20:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: DesertRhino
And it’s not at all a fact that “Molly Pitcher” existed.

Well that's going to come as a surprise to her family, the town of Carlisle, PA, and Revolutionary War historians.

Mary Ludwig Grave Site

Historical Markers Database Listing


40 posted on 11/27/2022 11:26:17 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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