USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China – Militarnyi

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1. OMG, the dependency on Chinese components for drones is a stark reminder of how interconnected global economies are, even in matters of national security.

2. The components are Not rocket science or even cost much. USA defence companies are just not interested. To them, if the profit margin is less than 500%, they are NOT interested.

   Why sell a USD$500 dollar drones when you can hiked up the price and sell “locally sourced” USD$50 000 drone to the US defence department. The BIG Fat defence companies are for Profit companies.

3. And Russia can’t make missiles without American and Taiwanese chips, and America can’t make cars without magnets from China, and China can’t make chips without the Netherlands, and so on, which also proves to us that the world economy is interdependent and that aberrant taxes of 500% are just rakes that you step on and hit you in the mouth!

4. The greater problem here is that this is part of a pattern. The missile warning system Ukraine developed was to network hundreds of cell phones. Javelins were cool and all, but because of their cost and scarcity, a remote fire tripod system that was 10% the cost of so of a javelin destroyed many more tanks. 
   We are unable to find solutions unless they are sufficiently expensive.
   There’s also an element of saving face. Imagine saying in 2014: we need more stinger missiles. They may be dated but that price bracket was perfect.

5. Military think tank’s across the world appreciate this information, nice to see everyone’s hand

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