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walrus01today at 4:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Think of this service basically for the same purpose as why Crye pants and stuff are manufactured domestically in the USA. But applied to circuit boards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Amendment

More specifically there are a number of new wide-spanning bans on import of mainland china made drone components such as flight controller boards, ESCs, power distribution boards, motors.

The definition of "Blue UAS" pre-dates recent more aggressive changes made by the current US executive branch of the government, but is still relevant:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=blue+UAS+...


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willcarknertoday at 4:55 PM

This is exactly our initial market. We realized you can't beat China for a long time, so what do you do in that time? Service demand where you have a structural advantage.

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