For you parents despairing about your teen-age son laying around in the basement and playing video games all day: there’s hope!
There’s a new profession for them, and one which pays pretty well. Apply: Ukrainian military.
The Nerdy Gamers Who Became Ukraine’s Deadliest Drone Pilots
POKROVSK, Ukraine—The Ukrainian drone pilot spotted two Russian soldiers seeking cover from his explosive machine in an outhouse. He sent his aerial craft, the size of a dinner plate with four rotors, swooping toward the narrow open door and performed what is known as *fokus*—a magic trick.The Russians’ bodies disappeared in a puff of smoke, blown apart by a couple of pounds of explosives strapped to the drone. As the dust settled, body parts appeared to be sticking out from the toilet.
“They returned to where they came from,” said the drone pilot, Oleksandr Dakhno, as he re-watched the scene, shot from a surveillance drone that accompanied the armed one, a few days later. Then he chuckled.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-gamers-drone-pilots-russia-85a1af3b