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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones (www.404media.co)
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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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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Radar doesn't work very well on cardboard. Ukraine has already been using drones like this since 2023.

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