South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"
This is my drone, this is my gun
Half-million strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”
A South Korean soldier checks a drone equipped with rifles during an anti-terror drill at the Kintex exhibition centre in Goyang on October 27, 2022. Credit: Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images
South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms. That ambitious goal was announced as the South Korean military seeks to maintain a technological edge in its 70-year border standoff with the larger military of a hostile North Korea.
The goal is to make drones a “universal combat tool” for all troops by training them to use drones like a “second personal weapon,” said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea’s Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reutersand other media outlets....
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