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 ...
They didn’t make any movies about the Cold War or its conclusion.
Bkmk
None of them were “needed”. Every one of those photos were programs done for PR and social reasons.
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.
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.
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.
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Feminist drone pilots. Talk about niche markets.
You like touching the third rail don’t you. :^)
Nice coats they are wearing. Good propaganda photo.
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/
Don’t those drones require to be charged NY electricity?
Something Ukraine doesn’t have much of now.
rofl!!!
Maybe they use evil hydrocarbons...
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They’ll get plenty of chances to put their skills to work.
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.
And it’s not at all a fact that “Molly Pitcher” existed.
Wow. Not only are you sexist but totally ignorant too.
Well that's going to come as a surprise to her family, the town of Carlisle, PA, and Revolutionary War historians.
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