Drones Took Our Jobs! These Are The Military Roles Disappearing In The Robotic Age.
Say goodbye to human engineers, helicopter crews and fighter pilots. Maybe.
Military snipers aren’t the only ones being forced into retirement by drones. As The Wall Street Journal explained in a recent story, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy, a Ukrainian sniper who set a world record by hitting a target 2.5 miles away, is now out of a job. Instead of taking carefully aimed shots at Russian troops, he’s now supporting drone operators. The same operators whose tiny, accurate first-person-view drones have rendered Kovalskiy’s former role obsolete.
Kovalskiy and his fellow snipers aren’t alone. A wide swathe of military jobs is fading away as increasingly capable and affordable unmanned systems prove they handle the same tasks, but without exposing a human being to enemy fire.
Some of the displaced military practitioners welcome their obsolescence. Others refuse to go quietly into the night, instead arguing for their continuing relevance in this robotic age.
