Airdrop delivery systems now disposable.

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Military units are the target market for a new disposable airdrop system, designed to deploy small payloads of up to 100 pounds from a wide variety of aircraft. Called CopterBox, it is made of corrugated paper box and has three rotor blades that use auto-rotation to slow the payload's descent.

The rotor blades deploy when the system is dropped from an aircraft, causing CopterBox to rapidly decelerate as it descends to the ground.

Each unit occupies less than 3.2 cubic feet of space, according to...