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Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.

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[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

flatpack like an IKEA shelf

And at a size of 0.5% of an Olympic swimming pool

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Ukrainian soldiers now unsure what to do with the mountain of excess allen keys that was quickly generated.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They were able to build 50 new tanks from the metal they obtained after melting them down.

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna need that expressed in eighteenths of football fields, pardner. 🇱🇷🦅

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That refers to the form, not the size. Like it's not a cube or cylindrical box, but a flat cuboid.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 month ago
[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

* Minecraft noises *

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That’s not something specific to IKEA though

[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hope you got a multitool

[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

How many is that in football fields?

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