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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by Ayaan2004 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:41AM (#47964170)
Kamikaze was always Japanese either it planes in world war 2 or drones for world war 3
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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by WalterBright on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:45AM (#47964223)
Ballistic missiles are also kamikazi. Also, proximity detecting artillery shells. and torpedos.
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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by tartoran on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:31PM (#47964918)
None of the above carry a human that is willing to die with the target.
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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by roughly on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:34PM (#47964979)
Nor do these drones
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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by pfdietz on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:05PM (#47964548)
Kamikazes have been described as anti-ship missiles before it was possible to build anti-ship missiles.
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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by WalterBright on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:49AM (#47964298)
Doolittle: “What is your one purpose in life?”

Bomb: “To explode, of course.”

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Re:Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones by bitwize on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:07PM (#47964569)
"WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?"

"You blow yourself up."

"OH MY GOD"

See also: https://blog.wrouesnel.com/posts/jipi-and-the-paranoid-chip/...

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