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Sometimes I’m reminded that many people still assume that the United States is still overwhelmingly the global leader and innovator in drone technology (both military and civilian), and hoo boy

as inspired by well meaning people asking if we can stop all these drone attacks on civilians by leaning on big U.S. defense companies (no, that didn’t exactly work in the GWOT days and it REALLY won’t work now)

We probably SHOULD be yelling at Baykar more from a “people are using your drones to bomb civilian huts” perspective, but they are unfortunately also a drop in in the overall bucket

Anduril and Hegseth and the Trump Large Adult Sons and the attendant remoras that feed upon them absolutely do WANT you to believe the U.S. is still the overwhelming global drone innovation leader (but that is not true).

The U.S. is shoveling tons of money at drones right now but the problem is that that money is very largely going to dumb assholes who are good at marketing to other dumb assholes

ICYMI (this came to mind earlier today when I saw a headline about the pentagon opening its proving ranges up to "small, innovative" companies.) abcnews.com/US/trump-son...