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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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So… like a very slow missile then?
Doubt they have much carrying capacity for explosives like a shahed drone which is $25k, while these $2k cardboard drones are great for surveillance with little concern for loss.
It doesn't take much explosive to defeat infantry.
Sure, it isn't flying across the country to hit an installation like a Shahed, but it could function as a longer-range, loitering mortar round.
Lots of small payloads would be useful if you can put a lot of them in the right place: blast fragmentation, HEDP, thermobaric, smoke, illumination, etc.
Radar doesn't work very well on cardboard. Ukraine has already been using drones like this since 2023.