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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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Building something like that is fairly trivial. What the article doesn't talk about is the sensor or communications package these things will carry. I suspect the $2000 price tag doesn't include any of that.
For $2000 it better have something. The real question is how good though - $2000 greatly limits what you can do, but a pi,, 5 mile radio, and a camera well fit into that budget, while a full AI system that can navigate without GPS someplace and then decide on a target cannot.
I suspect it does include that, because otherwise I'd expect it to cost more like $200, if not even less.