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.
The usa military budget is non comparable to european military budgets, they pay for different things. IMO.
They do? What do you mean?
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.