British Army's #drone degree program set to take flight - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/british_army_invests_in_drone_degree/ "Program will train just 20 people per year" needs to be 10x that...
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@glynmoody Also as pictured (assuming it came from the MoD) it eschews XBox or Sony controllers—which all squaddies come pre-trained on these days, and which are cheap as chips (in military procurement terms)—in favour of some sort of crappy 1980s rc plane controller. Which seems unwise …
@cstross @glynmoody that photo doesn’t show up for me in the article (I block lots of stuff so that may be the reason), but I suspect it is highly unlikely this is the actual training kit. Rather a stock or maybe even AI image that the Reg slapped on there.