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anovikovtoday at 7:10 AM1 replyview on HN

That's a much smaller issue than it sounds, Ukraine produces millions of drones without any Chinese components at all except magnets for electric motors, and li-poly cells. Certainly no Chinese electronics. Even lenses for thermal optics are now Ukrainian-made. They don't even come out as much more expensive anymore - there's still some slight price gap but not a considerable one.

Having Chinese drones in the sky is a risk. Having a dependency on their supply is another risk.


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palmoteatoday at 7:26 AM

> That's a much smaller issue than it sounds, Ukraine produces millions of drones without any Chinese components at all except magnets for electric motors, and li-poly cells.

Source? My understanding is that Ukrainian drones are pretty much 100% off-the-shelf Chinese components.

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