The stuff laundered from taobao unironically probably has better build quality than Switchblade, and defintely better payload.
Ukraine war really shows the level of drone tech dominance China has. When even civilian model drones are sought after as golden standard for recon and deep strikes.
Beijing has cracked the ability to make quality drones with good payloads in truly industrial amounts. Some nations can achieve the first two criteria, but no one can achieve the third without heavily compromising quality and payload.
Given the large role of drones in this conflict, it's easy to imagine how the PLAGF could crush both Russia's and Ukraine's army using the original, military spec versions of the drones sought after by both, not smuggled in limited amounts internationally to circumvent bans or assembled in Iran, but produced en masse across the whole mainland.
This is also a wake up call for those countries who think an invasion of China can work. Even completely disregarding the PLA's own drones as most simulations seem to completely ignore, just think what happens when billions of people crowdfund these dual use drone companies and create volunteer led drone swarms?
