South Korea to train half a million military personnel to become ‘drone warriors’

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South Korea is training 500,000 military personnel across all branches to operate drones, reflecting a strategic shift to emphasize drone warfare capabilities as a transformative technology on the battlefield. The move aims to make drone operation as common as handling personal firearms.

All branches of the military will be taught how to use technology that has become a ‘game changer on the battlefield’, says defence minister All of South Korea’s military forces will be trained as drone operators in a sweeping overhaul of its warfare strategy, the defence minister has said. “All soldiers should be able to use drones like a second personal firearm,” Ahn Gyu-back, who heads the defence ministry in Seoul, said on Friday. Continue reading...