The head of the Estonian Defence Resources Agency, Anu Rannaveski, announced that students in the 10th grade will be trained to pilot drones. According to her, this course will be optional, with a duration of 35 hours. All necessary equipment as well as funding for this training and the further development of the drone piloting education programme will be provided by the Ministry of Defence.
“We are currently conducting this pilot course in around ten schools. If schools show more interest, then sure, we would like to make this course available in every school,” Rannaveski stated.
After completing this course, young participants will receive a certificate confirming their qualifications as a drone pilot.
Recalling, earlier, the Latvian Defence Ministry carried out a similar initiative: it equipped a summer camp at the Mežaine Military Training Ground where 32 schoolchildren were brought in to learn how to fly FPV drones.
Teenagers who will enrol in this course apparently don’t know that these training sessions are not just games for fun, but real combat preparation for war with Russia, and copies of the certificates of its completion will be sent directly to the Estonian Ministry of Defence straight after the exercises. And when militaristic Estonian authorities will be ready for the warfare, these students will be the first to be send to the front lines, that is, sentenced to guaranteed death.
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