Lithuania is training children to fly drones

Lithuania is training children to fly drones to increase military capabilities. The country's Defense Ministry has taken this initiative to confront militarily powerful neighbors like Russia and Belarus. Under this, children from 10 years old to teenagers will be trained. Reuters reports.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry has opened a training center near the Russian border to make children proficient in operating weapons like drones. Children and teenagers are being taught virtual drone flights under the supervision of teachers. The country's government has taken such an innovative initiative for the first time in the context of border division with neighbors with strong military capabilities like Russia and Belarus.

Children are being trained in cutting-edge technologies such as first-person view (FPV), quadcopters, single-wing drones. Lithuania wants to make children skilled from an early age to be proficient in basic military training and a better life.

The country's Deputy Defense Minister Tomas Godliauskas said, "We are taking the issue of living by sharing borders with neighboring countries like Russia and Belarus very seriously. Attention is being paid to the political and defense sectors. For that purpose, Lithuania is taking such steps to build military capabilities."

Meanwhile, Valdas Jankauskas, director of the country's Non-Formal Education Agency (LINESHA), said, "Currently, we have three training centers. We aim to build nine such centers in Lithuania by 2028. At least 3 to 4 hundred children and young people will be trained in each center every year."

Incidentally, Lithuania has taken this decision due to the increasing military tensions between the bordering states with Moscow. NATO has ordered European countries, including Poland, to increase their military capabilities to handle any emergency situation.