10 boats in one van: Russia goes DIY with a plywood vessel that can be built in 4 hours and can carry 4 fiber-optic UAVs
THE SO WHAT
Cheap, flat-pack, screwdriver-assembled plywood boats that carry four fiber-optic UAVs each show how fast lethal autonomy is moving toward disposable, modular kits. Defense and critical-infra operators should assume low-cost, high-volume swarms are now a logistics problem, not a procurement bottleneck.
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