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

Not much substance in the article unless you pay.

Difficult to assess anything from it, one would hope they've calculated everything correctly. I know cardboard can be strong. But I have doubts about it's rigidity and longevity. These things have to handle being stored in an improvised bunker that's probably damp.

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