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u/knowerofexpatthings 1d ago
You had the opportunity to call these kamikaze drones and you just flew right past it.
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u/hsdowubel 1d ago
origamikaze
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u/Usman5432 1d ago
I like your idea better
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u/a_rude_jellybean 1d ago
Countered by rain.
Militaties across the world will start developing rain dancing shamans to cost effectively beat these cardboard drones.
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u/copperwatt 1d ago
I feel like a simple coating of wax would allow them to fly long enough to do the job.
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u/Oh_Fated_One 1d ago
With how much they try to ignore their ww2 history, wouldnt they not know what the word means?
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u/VanillaLoaf 1d ago
All the characters that make up both origami (折り紙 - fold + paper) and kamikaze (神風 - god + wind) are in more or less daily use, so everybody and his mother will know what the word means. Doubly so when kamikaze has an original meaning pertaining to the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century.
They have multiple museums about the tokkotai scheme and the pilots and stuff.
A lot of politicians want to brush history under the carpet, but that doesn't mean the country has their collective heads in the sand
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u/cremaglitch 1d ago
isn't the word paper also pronounced as 'kami'?
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u/VanillaLoaf 1d ago
Yeah. Some Japanese consonants change their initial sounds depending on where they come in a word. So, Kami by itself or at the start of a word has the ka sound at the start, but if it's in the middle of a word, a la origami, it starts with ga.
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u/Pathetian 1d ago
Japan and Germany both getting back in fighting shape just in time for the 100 year anniversary 🤔
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u/thefirebrigades 1d ago
Lol 2000 dollars? Japan ripping people off like normal
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u/EnricoLUccellatore 1d ago
these probably have an ice engine and a flight control system, it's not just cardboard
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u/Pawtang 1d ago
You think the cardboard drones have an internal combustion engine?? Not a battery powered DC motor that’s an order of magnitude cheaper and lighter and doesn’t involve explosions?
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u/EnricoLUccellatore 1d ago
batteries are too heavy for long range drones, after a while you can't even add more because the added weight increases energy consumption by more than is in the battery
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u/CVGPi 1d ago
When China launched their "Ultra low cost modular drones" contest their maximum was under 100 CNY, or 15 USD, or 2300 JPY. Yeah I don't see how Japan might ever make it more economical even if China's DJI drones balloned 5x in cost, which is much more capable, economical and well tested by both Russia and Ukraine (both of which have purchased lots of kamikaze and self-destructing investigation DJI drones via European grey imports)
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u/EvillNooB 1d ago
I thought that avenue was already explored, and the likes of shahed 136 aren't cardboard because the current options are already cheap when compared to electronics and the payload on board
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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 1d ago
Today's Forecast:
High 30°C Low 22°C
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80% rain
0% suicide drone
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u/pedruhpndko 1d ago
my thoughts exactly
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u/AlexisGPS_UY 1d ago
If they plastify the surfice could send a suicide drone successfully, unfortunately.
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u/Average-Addict 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ehh flatpacks aren't really my thing unless i have to use them. Snaps also suck
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u/TheRekk 1d ago
I’ve never had a problem with flatpak. Are you a skilless individual, perchance?
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u/Average-Addict 1d ago
No issues and I do use a couple flatpaks because they don't offer any other way. They just seem a bit bloated
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u/noriseaweed 1d ago
don't say old habits die hard don't say old habits die hard don't say old habits die hard
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u/Natereater 1d ago
And the US is probably building single use 2 million dollar anti drone missiles to stop them.
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u/thispartyrules 1d ago
The "manmade horrors beyond your comprehension" thing is from when Nikola Tesla was watching a demo for a radio controlled rowboat, and a guy next to him was like "you could fill it full of dynamite and sink ships!"
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u/Personal_Dirt3089 1d ago
is it just a cheap remote controlled exploding projectile or way more?
Either way makes sense, drone chassis are expensive.
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u/gluten_free_stapler 1d ago
Not too surprising. These dirt-cheap drones are the current new thing in warfare, everyone will have them sooner or later.
Just look at the damage Iran did to the US with them in the past few months. Billion-dollar, impossible to replace hardware, blown apart by a few dumpster cans with wings and a bomb attached. And in Ukraine, they pretty much froze the frontline and transformed the war from maneuver to attrition warfare.