If China’s able to effectively enforce sanctions against Skydio’s supply chain (the US based drone maker, that also happens to be the main lobbyist for a bulk of the anti DJI bills going through congress), it might just potentially annihilate the company. Even though the bodies of Skydio’s drones are “Made in the USA”, a vast majority of the components are only cost effectively made in China. They import the motors, the motor speed controllers, even then controller and lithium ion battery chargers from China. I can’t imagine them trying to produce their own drone motors by winding hundreds rotors by hand or contacting out to niche manufacturers that typically serve specialty and defense sectors at 1000% premiums over consumer market prices.
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If China’s able to effectively enforce sanctions against Skydio’s supply chain (the US based drone maker, that also happens to be the main lobbyist for a bulk of the anti DJI bills going through congress), it might just potentially annihilate the company. Even though the bodies of Skydio’s drones are “Made in the USA”, a vast majority of the components are only cost effectively made in China. They import the motors, the motor speed controllers, even then controller and lithium ion battery chargers from China. I can’t imagine them trying to produce their own drone motors by winding hundreds rotors by hand or contacting out to niche manufacturers that typically serve specialty and defense sectors at 1000% premiums over consumer market prices.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing, I was thinking perhaps they imported more parts from Japan or Taiwan.
Cost effectiveness is not so relevant to them. They use those anti-DJI bills to create a captive market. Law enforcement, federal agencies don't have many other options. If you look as their latest commercial pricing (no longer pursuing consumer business), they are basically selling "drone as a service" plans. They did release a non-subscription required model this year X10, allegedly costing in the neighbourhood of $15K USD for a Mavic-class drone. I imagine if Ukraine only had access to Skydio drones, Russian forces would have been in Lviv as of Spring.
Because Israel and West uses weapons made in Saudi Arabia, and Saudis will simply switch them off.
when it comes to war almost 100% of countries are deterred by sanction threat from US if a country has half decent living standards. so its moot point what kind of weopons it purchases. Saudi own population is less than 20m so it is not like they can built factories to make there own weopons. Saudis invaded Bahrain with western weopons and defeated Houthis.
Also having own weopons like Iran/Ukraine gives misplaced self confidence. You can already see Iranians missiles are pinpricks compared to imported bombs from Israel. Iran has lost legitimacy among its Arab followers as it could not protect them.
Anglos are not a warrior race, as much as they would like to believe it; they are not Chechens or Pashtuns. They don’t even have the strong sense of family essential to these cultures. Anglos as a culture are a merchant piratical race hence why they are perfectly fine suing family members or putting their parents into nursing homes before even attempting to perform their filial duties.
it appears that despite the great liberal revolutions of the 19th century, that Europeans so quickly revert to autocracy.
I expect Chinese cities to look solarpunk in the near future
I pulled on that thread so see where it led. Not very far. Skydio is almost alone in its drone maker category and it left the consumer market last year. It's received about $0.5B private equity money and hasn't filed an S-1 with the SEC. So living off government and business contracts only. So far I see no signs of an "omnibus" contract so each contract must be individually priced and terms negotiated. This is expensive for a small business and greatly increases overhead costs which are rolled into product costs which results in fewer drones out the door and RDTE starvation spiral.
So I'm agreeing with HereToSeePics. Unless the Federal government steps in with an "omnibus" contract for Federal, state and local governments and their industry partners that provides the foundation investments needed, I'm not seeing a successful transition from Chinese suppliers either.
Baloney!!!!, BYD had NO INTEREST to build cars in India and why should they? its a snake pit. BYD even want India to pay the full amount for the EV bus they plan to import....lol This article is so malicious that even a 10 year child can decipher it.
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Any Chinese investment into India must involve the Indian government or their oligarchs placing gold and/or oil or their Yuan held in a Chinese bank in escrow that is forfeit in the case of Indian theft, and in any case, i still wouldn't advise it because China is better served with a poor india mired in its own turds.
Invariably, the news from China is fairly positive and that's also due to growing western consumption of Chinese soft power items like TikTok and seeing bloggers going to China and showcasing Chinese advances, and on top of that you have news of China curing diabetes, giving people the ability to walk again, curing autoimmune diseases whilst anglo led western science and medicine is geared around turning people into feudal serfs and subscribers.
The China hawks are behaving like they're dealing with China of 2006 or latest, 2015 and even then China defended itself successfully against anglo subversion with its pivot to Asia.
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