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.
At least they don’t put people in them this time 😅
Nintendo lab 2.0
Sell overpriced consoles with the tariff money they don’t have to pay anymore… But to what end…?
That’s the eco-friendliness we deserve, and from Japan no less.
Australia made these in 2023 already.
…and supplied them to Ukraine.
This will never fly in Seattle! Too wet.
They could use waxed cardboard like fruit boxes.
I saw the cardboard festival tent hold up to a couple days of rain. Thats probably more than the maximum mission time it needs.
Trebuchet > wet lump of cardboard drone > boom! Your argument is invalid.
It only needs to fly once. Honestly, it’d probably work.
But hey, I’m sure it’s all irrelevant, I mean who would ever want to vindictively drone strike Seattle…
Cardkaze
Origamikaze
But why would you use a drone to commit suicide?
Surprise suicide?
New Amazon assistance suicide subscription.
Suicide subscription might not be the most profitable business model.
Could be used as a family plan. Gotta do something about grandma when she becomes a burden.
I may have a forgettable life, so I’ll make sure to have an unforgettable death.
I guess that makes the “suicide” part easier to achieve.
So… like a very slow missile then?
Doubt they have much carrying capacity for explosives like a shahed drone which is $25k, while these $2k cardboard drones are great for surveillance with little concern for loss.
It doesn’t take much explosive to defeat infantry.
Sure, it isn’t flying across the country to hit an installation like a Shahed, but it could function as a longer-range, loitering mortar round.
Lots of small payloads would be useful if you can put a lot of them in the right place: blast fragmentation, HEDP, thermobaric, smoke, illumination, etc.
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.
We really gotta stop using the term suicide I’m this context. It’s silly this ain’t no jihadi jeep
