‘Top Gun’ but made for drone pilots

 

  ‘Top Gun’ but made for drone pilots. The Pentagon is launching its very own Maverick-approved school for first-person view drone pilots. Next month, teams from across the services will gather at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, for a training camp and competition. There they will hone skills on FPV kamikaze drones, as seen in Ukraine, Patrick Tucker reports for Defense One.

A little more: The pace of drone warfare in Ukraine is forcing the Army to rethink how it trains. “We usually have these large clusters of formations. We like to drive in convoys,” Maj. Gen. Ronald R. Ragin, commander of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, told Stars and Stripes. “I do not believe that that will be applicable on future battlefields, because if you can be seen, you can be killed.”