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- mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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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At least they don’t put people in them this time 😅
Sending young pilots to death in a rapidly aging society would be bad.
Seems sending old pilots it’s a win win then.
Nintendo lab 2.0
This is an approach that could never succeed in the U.S., because there the focus is always on throwing as much money as possible at the defense contractors so that the billionaires can get even richer.
A current example: the war of aggression against Iran that the U.S. is waging in violation of international law.
To my knowledge, not even a halfway plausible reason has been given for this. And so it becomes quite clear that this is simply about shifting state resources into the pockets of the super-rich - and U.S. citizens just go along with it, even though it isn’t even them who are dying by the thousands, but rather, among others, Iranian schoolchildren, hundreds of whom were murdered simply by a bombing of a school…
The usa military budget is non comparable to european military budgets, they pay for different things. IMO.
That’s the eco-friendliness we deserve, and from Japan no less.
This will never fly in Seattle! Too wet.
There are cheap and easy ways to waterproof cardboard, but I’m not sure why you would want to attack Seattle.
I saw the cardboard festival tent hold up to a couple days of rain. Thats probably more than the maximum mission time it needs.
They could use waxed cardboard like fruit boxes.
It only needs to fly once. Honestly, it’d probably work.
But hey, I’m sure it’s all irrelevant, I mean who would ever want to vindictively drone strike Seattle…
The number of our amazon boxes will block out the sun.
Then we will fight in the shade.
Thats one hell of a papercut
Excited to see one of these bad boys show up at the next WHCD
We really gotta stop using the term suicide I’m this context. It’s silly this ain’t no jihadi jeep
