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.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 hours ago

    Our species is really good at getting creative with low-budget weapons, whether it’s diseased blankets or catapulting our own plagued corpses at each other.

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        12 hours ago

        The blankets were given to Native Americans by colonists. I forget whether they knew or not, but the American genocide is 100% real.

        The lobbing corpses thing is attributed to Genghis Khan, and it may be apocryphal.