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.

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 hours ago

    The usa military budget is non comparable to european military budgets, they pay for different things. IMO.

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        6 hours ago

        In addition, they patrol the entire planets oceans, and are the main reason why you don’t have pirates just taking ships constantly.

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          (I’m not necessarily saying piracy is bad…)

          But I feel like the violent enforcement of extreme inequality is what creates pirates, not what stops them.

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        20 hours ago

        It includes costs for retired personnel and social security (social security is not in the military budget in most or any European countries) for example.