Drones ... the USA compared to China
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manufacturing-lags.html
Nothing you don't already know or suspect:
- Present day warfare is tilting more and more towards using cheap, small drones (go for hundreds to tens of thousands a piece)
- China manufactures a ton of them cheap, small drones
- The USA is very good at manufacturing UAVs (go for millions to tens of millions a piece), but not the cheap, small drones.
- The estimated gap is that China's capacity to manufacture cheap, small drones is two orders of magnitude greater than the USA's.
- Even as we try to manufacture the cheap, small drones here, many components still have to be sourced from China.
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