Japan setzt ultragünstige Pappdrohnen ein, die für Schwarmkriege und entbehrliche Kampfeinsätze entwickelt wurden – entbehrliche Kampfdrohnen im Wert von 2.000 US-Dollar kosten weniger als einige Gaming-PCs
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/japan-is-deploying-ultra-cheap-cardboard-drones-built-for-swarm-warfare-and-expendable-combat-missions-usd2-000-expendable-combat-drones-cost-less-than-some-gaming-pcs
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Must suck to be North Korea. They finally, *finally,* ***finally*** are figuring out ballistic missiles with their multi-billion dollar missile program only for warfare to move on to $2000 cardboard drones.
Sir! We can’t fly that mission until it stops raining.
Imagine spending all that time in the North Korean army not having enough food to eat and getting killed by some MUJI drone.
Nintendo Labo: winning the wars of tomorrow, today.
„less then some gaming PC“. Yeah no they have RAM those things.
These can be made for $200
Good thing rhe title provided a comparisone. Without that, I would have never have known what $2000 meant.
If you want to read an interesting article about how drones and other unmanned systems are changing the face of modern warfare [this one from a former Ukrainian defense minister](https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/04/ukraine-russia-war-changing-warfare-practice-military-strategy) is a good one.
This sounds like a strategy Japan has used before.
At this rate, subterranean warfare is the future.
Weird how the price comparison is with a gaming PC. Like there is a bunch of gamers out there who are really interested in the IRL cost of drones.
But how will the military industrial complex suck up trillions dollars of tax money with cheap, effective stuff? Think of the profit line!!!!
I fucking hate the world so much. Imagine if we could all just get along… Imagine if rich people didn’t need to keep others down so they could become obsenely rich. Imagine how damn GOOD we could all be living.
do other drones actually cost more? and if so, why?
A pretty good DJI drone is about $1k… what is some C4 attached to it? I dont think $2k is cheap…
We are so great and creative at finding new and novel ways to kill each other.
So what happens when it rains….?
feels like the worlds at a point where every nation is supposed to just churn out millions of drones of various sizes to make the cost of attacking them to high for their neighbors, and theres only like 1 military in the world with expeditionary capabilities enough to sustain a war far away.
the down side of that is, every aggressor knows if they want to change the map they have a few years to do so then it becomes very very hard.
This is great news! Bringing down the cost of killing humans to just a few hundred bucks soon
The US could make the same thing for 100x the cost. And it will have ai that won’t work
Cheaper and biodegradable, win/win!!!
Due to demand from ai, gaming pcs are way more than $2k. 32gb of ram now go for $400
Can’t wait to see which AI oligarch’s cardboard drone kills me in the water wars.
Gonna suck if it rains on them
Best military tech: paper plane. Who could have predicted this
Does that price include the lethal explosive? What is the value/cost of a life?
Drones that can be defeated by a firehose.
The new warfare
Said it before. This tech is going to drastically reduce the need for „next gen“ fighter planes. They’ll still have a place, maybe more recon/patrol and less combat, but why spend a [100 million for an F-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II) with added support costs when it can get you 50,000 „cheap“ drones for the purchase price alone? I wish the Canadian feds understood this…