• SaltySalamander
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    327 days ago

    Where do you think our current drone fleet came from? A hint: it wasn’t China.

    • @[email protected]
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      227 days ago

      The Cherokee Nation. I’ve actually done some work in the drone industry and I know that the Cherokee Nation build drones for Lockheed Martin. The Native Americans are not the American government so they can bypass some tariffs and other legal issues the US government faces with regards to import export. We still don’t have the infrastructure of China. We don’t have the manufacturing base in this area that China has. Don’t look down on China, they are innovative in drone technology. The companies in the US needs to get a innovative as the Chinese one but for that we need the same support from our government that the Chinese get to create the missing infrastructure that China has.

      • @aodhsishaj
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        126 days ago

        That would require corporations to pay for American labor protections and taxes. So yes, we absolutely can and should, I’m not confident however that we will.