are our drone production capabilities and tech so bad we need to outsource?
Considering how many drones you (russia) are buying from iran and china, yes.
>>64345083>russiai'm from florida you dingus
>>64345041>ourDuring multipolar o'clock?
>>64345083>russiaIn all honesty, Ukraine being advance enough to sell back their drone tech to the US is such a massive flex that it would cause aneurysm to a vatnikger trying to comprehend it.
>>64345041We literally have 0 drones>but that guy was carrying one in the parade!We have one (1) drone. Modern 1st-world militaries require at least a million FPVs/fiber optic drones, ANNUALLY. Russia, Ukraine, and probably to some extent China do this.
>>64345807>1st world countries require fiber optic droneslmao the fucking level of delusion in this post>b-but in ukrainethe plight of the dronenigger.
Did people seriously forgot about Predator drones or did the faggots who slobbering over DJI toys actually a 12 years old kids who born after GWOT era?
>>64345041>drone production capabilities Yes, pretty fucking bad. This is what happens when you strip mine blue collar labor jobs for smaller, less profitable items and offshore manufacturing of them to preserve profit for the oligarchy. That should come as no surprise to anyone. >TechNo, better on R&D and implementation than most places. That has little bearing on production, however.
>>64345868>0 drones vs a million drones Go for it John Burger, let me know how that works out for you
>>64345897not comparable in the slightest, literally not even the same technology in any way the only similarity is both being unmanned
It's not the tech, it's the lack of understanding how they are used in war. When you don't know how the fuck it's used good luck making a decent product for it.
>>64345041No because ukraine owe us money
>>64345771Ukies are very ingenious when they have to.Like they have been in the forefront of stuff like cracking computer game DRM and circumventing John Deere tracktor's proprietary software locks ever since they started implementing them. It was always Ukies that did the really high-tech stuff for Soviet Union too, despite Russians claiming the credit for it all. Very tech-savvy bunch. We could really learn from them. Pictured: Ukrainian 3d-printed drone-droppable grenade with ball bearing shrapnel.
>>64345771>advance enough to sell back their drone tech to the USUS military has zero use for manually steered FPV drones with jerry rigged warheads and their use of observation quadcopters predates the whole war by decades and is already commonplace.
>>64345807>Russia, Ukraine, and probably to some extent China>Modern 1st-world militaries
>>64345041Ukraine is also just buying their drone parts off Ali express
>>64345041It’s probably just cheaper to have Ukraine do it
>>64345088Same difference.
>>64345041Yes. The DOD procurement relies on a lot of small bespoke boomer shops that cannot make things in large volumes, and are more about rent-seeking than making lots of [thing] efficiently.
>>64346031??? MQ-9 and RQ-2b pioneer fulfill the FPV's unmanned strike and recon roles respectively.
>>64345807>China, China, and probably to some extent China do thisFTFY
>>64346291Actually, a mortar round that fly through any open window or door is really useful. Mortars already caused most casualties as a weapon class throughout the 20th century.
>>64345041Well yeah, need a mass-producing industrial base for that. Outsourcing it to an adversary hasn't been a smart move.
