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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones (www.404media.co)
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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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[-] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago

But I assumed the airframe was probably the cheapest component after electronics guidance and munitions were added?

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Probably right, but can it get even cheaper?

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