If anybody has ever told you that you waste too much time playing video games, just point them to this story here. One Ukrainian soldier has attributed his skills as a drone operator to his time spent playing video games. 25-year-old Mykhailo, also known by his callsign “Joker” (hopefully more Mass Effect than Batman) reminisced in an interview with Reuters about how his mother would reprimand him while he was young for playing video games, telling him that it was a waste of time and would get him nowhere.
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Today, however, Mykhailo pilots first-person drones every day fighting for Ukraine in its ongoing struggle against Russia. He attributes this skill to his time spent playing video games as a youth, opining that “if this isn’t useful, I don’t know what is” while pointing to a small quadcopter he was holding at the time.
“Since I’ve been transferred to this unit to work with drones,” Mykhailo says. “Every time I put on my goggles and take the joystick, I recall my mother telling me that those video games wouldn’t do me any good. Well, if this isn’t useful, what is?”
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Mykhailo is also designing his own drones. At this time, he is operating in Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine. At the moment, he is helping the Ukrainian forces to mount a counter against the Russian invaders with the hopes of pushing them out of their territory. Mykhailo opted not to provide a last name to his interviewers. The FPV drones Mykhailo uses are designed to crash directly into a target, and as such always fly fast and aim forward, never hovering.
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Mykhailo discussed with Reuters how enemy troops try to interfere with electrical signals to make his job more difficult. “We received a new batch of drones yesterday, and today we are going to test them. We will see how they work at a distance, whether the connection is lost or not, and so on because we must check every drone we get. It might have some defective parts or certain things may not work.”
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Source: Reuters
