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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      7 hours 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…

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      21 hours 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.

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      22 hours ago

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

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