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  • But where is battery, engine, controller board, camera, optic cable etc from?
    by chvid
  • if another country towed a raft full of thousands of cheap drone off a US coast and launched them into the country we have absolutely no defense

    they could take out all water and power utilities on the entire east coast over 24 hours

    our million dollar missiles would be useless even if Whiskey-Pete was more than willing to use them over crowded cities

    North Korea, Russia, China, et al

    and considering we've depleted a decade's worth of weapons and half of the fleet is overseas, we're pretty darn vulnerable right now thanks to those in power

    I wonder how far away we are from "dirty drones" where they don't even need a bomb, just radioactive material or toxic chemicals as dust

    by ck2
  • Aren't they worried the cardboard will catch fire on impact and cause damage?
    by analogpixel
  • The airframe is the cheapest part of the drone though. You can make it out of Balsa wood and foam like traditional "model planes" and there won't be any major performance differences. Modern CAD is very good at simulating stress on the frame and as long as your engine's powerful enough, most materials should hold up fine at those scales for single use (anything smaller than than a Cessna basically).
    by Onavo
  • From the headline I was picturing flying futurama-style suicide booths.
    by comrade1234
  • Australia has been making cardboard drones for military purposes for a while now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/ukraine-war-australia...

    EDIT: The company that makes them first pitched them to the ADF in 2018: https://www.sypaq.com.au/news/sypaq-wins-for-the-cardboard-d...

    by cjs_ac
  • "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." - The Hunt for Red October
    by ceejayoz
  • https://archive.is/5Pqg6
    by traeregan

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