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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
The US currently has the capacity to make about 20,000 consumer-style drones a year. China's current capacity is closer to 20,000 drones a day.
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Radar🚨
@RadarHits
💥Record breaking drone show in China with +10,000 drones. This tech will be weaponised. Imagine 10,000 ai guided bombs swarming the sky. 🤨
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Benjamin De Kraker 🏴‍☠️
@BenjaminDEKR
This issue is being largely ignored / shrugged off... ... nobody seems to have any good answers on how to counter this (no, probably not "EMP") since there are no easy answers we just pretend it's not happening.
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Taylor J
@DB_Fan_90
It's almost as bad as the disparity when it comes to shipbuilding. China builds 50% of the new ships each year compared to 0.13% by America. Both sectors need massive increases.
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Ari Teman
@AriTeman
Gotta be much higher than that in China if you consider they can repurpose a factory in days & have seemingly endless skilled labor to repurpose CNC machinery, too. Only Elon / Tesla seem to understand the battlefront that is factory automation in the USA.
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Alejandro Saldaña
@Alexsaldanav
Is there a market in the US big enough to justify the enormous investment that would be needed to produce that quantity of drones? China has the advantage of being the world’s factory and is a centrally planned economy.
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
The drone market is massive. The US makers have never found a way to compete with China on price, though, so everyone has decided it's a fool's errand to compete
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
The US doesn't even have a proper consumer drone company. Next level up are SkyDio and Brinc and a couple others, making enterpise drones. They have single factories each where 20,000 for a year would be massive figures
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Sid
@CloudWhiz90
Where did you get these exact figures? Production is generally linked to demand. With China being more populous than the U.S., it naturally has higher demand and therefore more production. But that doesn’t imply any kind of superiority.
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
This has little to do with population. The US does not actually have a real consumer drone company of its own, so no factories to begin with. China supplies the whole world
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Simon VanDyk
@VandykSimon
What’s worse is that if we were ever in a conflict with them, most of the required components we use come from China and without them, we would struggle to produce a fraction of those 20,000 a year.
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Aaron Slodov
@aphysicist
offer still stands...
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Aaron Slodov
@aphysicist
anybody who wants to take this seriously i will hyper charge your production and make all of your tooling, not even kidding x.com/naval/status/1…
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Mike Fiuk
@MLFiuk
That number is very much incorrect
@ashleevance
; off by an order of magnitude at least. Happy to give you the right context if interested - just shoot me a DM!
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@EvrybodynthrMom
What the US probably has, according to
@JustXAshton
, is directed energy tech which can be used for various forms of attack. The MIC hasn't yet admitted to using this technology, but they've probably already tried several covert demonstrations, following MH370. Maybe China has
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Ben Brooks
@opensauceAI
Because China treats it like consumer electronics. They iterate quickly, use existing tech, and optimize for cost. They learn a ton in the process, which they can apply to enterprise / defense / public sector development. Here, drone manufacturing feels like the ULA.
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MintFace 🍒
@mintfaced
drones are grenades with wings…and FaceID All you’d need is a large data source of humans. Like umm Tik Tok.
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WizFrogmark
@WizFrogmark
China's drone development is advancing at a rapid pace. However, if misused or directed toward the wrong purposes, it could become a cause for concern rather than a display of innovation and harmless drone shows.
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Raja
@rajasark
US has 0 iPhone production capacity China Millions Like exploding bombs in our pockets. Access to all out photos and where you jerk off.
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@novicus
@novicus
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@novicus
@novicus
It's even worse than that: UNDERSEA drone swarms - millions of them - will render submarine-based nuclear deterrents utterly useless. And only one country has the manufacturing capacity to produce drones at that scale. It's not the United States of America. x.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Joshua Johnson
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Joshua Johnson
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Here’s the new FEMA I want to see. An army of AI powered drones capable of autonomous supply drops plus a mountain of Starlink minis. All ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. Leaving more human assets to perform critical search and rescue operations and infrastructure repair. x.com/ryanhallyall/s…
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John Mell 🇺🇦
@braincell__
Drones have an easy counter: jamming. If the US sees China building drones, they'll just build jammers. Fully autonomous without radio control drones are still not a reality, and that might change the game.
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ChrisB
@Sabertoothbrat
Imagine that swarm each drone with 4oz of C-4 explosive. Each as deadly as a 155mm howitzer shell. Devastating to soldiers on foot. Imagine if AI hunting on battlefield. Terminators
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Trevor
@PR0TUS
We understand how these are different from something that’s work in the shooting gallery that will be the SCS, right?
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bart a schneberger
@SchnebergerA
This should scare the shet out of the US military. Hydrogen nuclear weapons are not usable, neither side survives. Drone swarms powered by AI are the same lethal power. Benefit to the cost analysis says, Stand Down if and this is a giant if, both sides have the same technology.
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Georgey
@PeorgeyGeorgey
Sad... And John Kerry is worried about "disinformation" ... bro needs to focus on other things than maintaining his stupid power (ironic that he keeps diminishing it with his policy decisions). Just take your money and shut up already.
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DASPEC
@daspec
History comes full circle. The Chinese discovered gun powder and made the first fireworks, and now they've replaced them with drones both for fun and war.
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Jason
@jbeam123
Do you realize we can build them on the kitchen table with minimal tools? Americans would step up.
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Alan Magil
@AlanMagil15164
Aye that will be the new warfare launch 5000 drones at a time from unmanned remote carriers 2000 miles off the coast of your country
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Ancestor Explorer
@Ancestorology
It already IS weaponized. The Ds, Rs, FAA are PREVENTING more drones in our skies, so they don't become victims of those drones. The next war, the US will see bombs & more dropped here. It'll be brutal. The Ds, Rs, don't care.
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