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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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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This will never fly in Seattle! Too wet.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I saw the cardboard festival tent hold up to a couple days of rain. Thats probably more than the maximum mission time it needs.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are cheap and easy ways to waterproof cardboard, but I'm not sure why you would want to attack Seattle.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Microslop has its headquarters there. That's enough reason to flatten the city and salt the earth.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, they're headquartered in Redmond.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

...which is basically just a bedroom community for Seattle.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

They could use waxed cardboard like fruit boxes.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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...

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Trebuchet > wet lump of cardboard drone > boom! Your argument is invalid.