AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

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.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    7·
    18 days ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      18 days ago

      I suspect it does include that, because otherwise I’d expect it to cost more like $200, if not even less.