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."
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You know you’re winning a war when women are needed.
Leave it to you to make this about equity, too.
LOL
If the government should ever give out free stuff to anyone, then I think EVERYONE should have his/her own drone. Kids, too. A great equalizer. Just think of your average kid with his own drone. Now think of every kid with a drone. It would be a veritable UTOPIA.
With no men around, the woman HAVE TO find something else to control.
Perhaps.
The main new skill hoho women are learning is how to register for mail-order bride systems. The worthwhile men in their towns and villages are all dead or maimed.
Sexist much, Comrade Ganeemead?
It’s been almost a year of non stop Ukrainian victory!
Love their drone commander uniforms!
I guess ukraine is sending people into battle and they provide their own clothing and supplies.
It’s funny to see how the Russians react to every story, whether good or bad.
This war is an interesting mix of WW1 conditions with high tech surveillance techniques. Both sides are having to adapt. And you can imagine war planners everywhere are taking notes.
Just telling it like it is, i.e. providing a contrast to your stupid lies...
A painting, and chicks not in any actual battle.
I’m aware of some successful female snipers.
“In 2014, the IDF stated that fewer than 4 percent of women are in combat positions such as light infantry and helicopter or fighter pilots, and that they are instead concentrated in “combat-support” positions.”
Even in tiny Israel, which is surrounded by enemies, most women know their place.
Oh really, Comrade Gator?
So where exactly is that women's place?
Not in combat. Women ruin unit cohesion.
Ukrainian women have started learning a crucial war skill: How to fly a drone
Can’t wait to see all the movies hollywood makes.
Some 5’2” 95 lbs chick, that’s hot and wearing makeup, killing hundreds of baby eating Russians...
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