The Russian army needs experienced gamers - expert
The Russian army lacks people experienced in handling equipment and gaming joysticks who could quickly be trained as drone operators.
The general director of Avianovatsii LLC, Sergei Tovkach, stated this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is a problem with operators. For example, hitting an infantry fighting vehicle with a drone is not so easy. Firstly, the earth has a very unstable air density, there are rising and warm currents, the drone chatters. You need to have a good reaction. These are gamers who must fly a drone for at least two hundred hours in the simulator,” Tovkach said.
“And preferably a penchant for video games,” the presenter added.
“There’s no problem with that, I think. “PlayStation 4” and “DJI” have almost identical joysticks, and in our delivery service we use a joystick from “PS 4,” the general director answered.
In his opinion, the Russian army should have special training centers for drone operators.
“If we just took a random person who knows how to handle technology, with a joystick, then we could put him in front of a simulator, if there was such a center. In the LPR, Wagner has such a center, but the army does not.
And on the screen he will control this copter for two hundred hours. This is two weeks of intensive training. After that, he flies at least six hours on a test drone, hitting paper targets where the drone is not damaged,” the expert added.
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