Whoever passed over the name Origami-Kaze should be fired
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I cant wait til we’re all firing at each other with condensed fecal matter at mach 7.
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Nintendo Labo 2.
flatpack like an IKEA shelf
And at a size of 0.5% of an Olympic swimming pool
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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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Very traditional.
Australia sent something similar to Ukraine a few years ago, but I haven't heard too much about them since.
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It was only a matter of time, and I'm surprised that it's taken this long for a cardboard drone to come to market. Dirt cheap, but strong enough to hold together to deliver the payload.
But I assumed the airframe was probably the cheapest component after electronics guidance and munitions were added?
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An environmentally friendly drone!
What is the difference between a “suicide drone” and a missile? Both are just guided to run into their target. It’s not like an ICBM wants to return home after dropping the payload.
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Weren't our kamikaze planes made of paper too?
Not much substance in the article unless you pay.
Difficult to assess anything from it, one would hope they've calculated everything correctly. I know cardboard can be strong. But I have doubts about it's rigidity and longevity. These things have to handle being stored in an improvised bunker that's probably damp.
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Nintendo lab 2.0
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At least they don't put people in them this time 😅
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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...
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That's the eco-friendliness we deserve, and from Japan no less.
This will never fly in Seattle! Too wet.
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The number of our amazon boxes will block out the sun.
Then we will fight in the shade.
So… like a very slow missile then?
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Cardkaze
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Thats one hell of a papercut
But why would you use a drone to commit suicide?
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I guess that makes the "suicide" part easier to achieve.
Excited to see one of these bad boys show up at the next WHCD
For single use it's not a bad idea honestly but I can't imagine they would carry much and things like the wind might play a big factor.
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We really gotta stop using the term suicide I'm this context. It's silly this ain't no jihadi jeep
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I don't know what the defense will be against swarms of thousands of cheap smart bombs. Take them out at the source? Attack Japan's manufacturing even if they aren't in the war? Thousands of a bit more expensive and faster smart interceptors?
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