Depends on the utility. If they're decoy or target drones then Russia also has Geraniums made from polystyrene. And Cardboard cant carry much for its density so warheads won't be as big. For antipersonnel that's not an issue i spose.

BUT! It's novel, it leverages local manufacturing/supply chains, and has some potential advantage over similar conceptual alternarives. This is Dialectically the closest we'll see to a western alternative to a Shahed, not the crappy derivative the US tried to produce at much lower capacity and cost.

Albert Einstein's "World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" quote is true. It's just that they'll be drones made of sticks and stones.

Dang that's pretty cool. $2k a pop. Shaheds are like $7k.

Anyways another $200,000,000,000 to building aircraft carriers

Thinking quickly Dave assembles a drone out of a bomb, some tape and a duck

This makes complete sense tbh. Most hobby model planes are like lightweight balsa wood. There's no reason cardboard can't work.

Old habits die hard I see

Operation Paper Tiger

oh no, they are smart about it :(

Great, killer shoeboxes.

Can i get one? Just for fun and profit

I wonder if you could make an even lighter airframe with thin ABS plastic...

This feels like these probably have incredibly limited use cases

I'm talking defeated by the rain, American style type shit

This isn't new, during the Russia-Ukraine war, there was an Australian (?) group that was promoting their cardboard drone for Ukraine. Haven't heard anything from these cardboard drones since.

I didn’t know Nintendo was making drones now