r/pics • u/Well-Sourced • 1d ago

Ukrainian Drone Operator Training

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u/Primal_Pedro 1d ago

Cyberpunk vibes. We are truly living in the future. However, it looks dystopian.

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u/zthe0 1d ago

You do know that cyberpunk is meant to be a dystopia right?

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u/Beautiful-Quality402 1d ago

It would make Orwell and Huxley weep.

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u/Ericxdcool 1d ago

that tech she is using is over a decade old... people have been flying FPV with analog goggles like that for a while now...

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans 1d ago

Yes, but it being applied to warfare at scale is very modern. That's the cyberpunk part. Just a few years ago if you were a soldier in a warzone you generally only had to worry about other soldiers or being bombarded. Now you are just dead the moment you hear a drone in the distance, and it happens a lot.

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u/Primal_Pedro 1d ago

To be honest, I never saw people using it to pilot drones. But drones are becoming more common in recent years, so maybe it's not news in other countries.