Missed military service? You could become a new drone pilot
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- A new project is testing whether gamers have an advantage when Sweden trains future drone pilots.
- The Stockholm School of Economics and Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration are running the project.
- Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin completed a simulator mission to find a missing child in a virtual Stockholm.
Could hours spent playing Counter-Strike become an asset for Sweden’s total defence? A new project is testing whether gamers have an advantage when future drone pilots are trained.
The Stockholm School of Economics and Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration are conducting the project. Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin took the controls of what appeared to be an ordinary game console. On the screen, a virtual Stockholm formed the setting for a search mission.
The task was to fly a drone from the Stockholm School of Economics to Stadion and locate a child reported missing. Just over two minutes later, the mission was complete.
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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