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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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flatpack like an IKEA shelf
And at a size of 0.5% of an Olympic swimming pool
Ukrainian soldiers now unsure what to do with the mountain of excess allen keys that was quickly generated.
They were able to build 50 new tanks from the metal they obtained after melting them down.
I’m gonna need that expressed in eighteenths of football fields, pardner. 🇱🇷🦅
Hope you got a multitool
How many is that in football fields?
That refers to the form, not the size. Like it’s not a cube or cylindrical box, but a flat cuboid.
That’s not something specific to IKEA though
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.
I suspect it does include that, because otherwise I’d expect it to cost more like $200, if not even less.
It was only a matter of time, and I’m surprised that it’s taken this long for a cardboard drone to come to market. Dirt cheap, but strong enough to hold together to deliver the payload.
Australia sent something similar to Ukraine a few years ago, but I haven’t heard too much about them since.
An environmentally friendly drone!
What is the difference between a “suicide drone” and a missile? Both are just guided to run into their target. It’s not like an ICBM wants to return home after dropping the payload.
Weren’t our kamikaze planes made of paper too?
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.
