AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

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.

    • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      yeah sorry, I sounded like a dick there.

      It’s just that because Japanese has so many homonyms, the number of characters used (therefore number of syllables) plays an important role when you make a clever pun. Also, kamikaze is just the devine wind, and we associate the suicide attacks with the word tokkoutai, especially in WWII Pacific Theatre, or kesshitai in general. So while origami-kaze sounds awesome in English, it doesn’t work that well in English. Hope that makes sense!

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 days ago

        You’re good lol, I just never learned enough Japanese - about a year in high school, two decades ago - to have a good response other than “you’re probably right!”