AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

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.

    • Einskjaldi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      In addition, they patrol the entire planets oceans, and are the main reason why you don’t have pirates just taking ships constantly.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      It includes costs for retired personnel and social security (social security is not in the military budget in most or any European countries) for example.