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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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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 6 months ago

For $2000 it better have something. The real question is how good though - $2000 greatly limits what you can do, but a pi,, 5 mile radio, and a camera well fit into that budget, while a full AI system that can navigate without GPS someplace and then decide on a target cannot.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago*

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

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