At a time when reducing imports and building national capacity is become ever more important, Ukraine has achieved what seemed impossible: producing drones using entirely locally made components. This gives them an unrivalled ability to develop and mass produce drones to their exact requirements. More surprising is the cost. Rather than adding a premium, by building locally the Ukrainians are actually undercutting Chinese makers.
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I assume they’re devoting the vast majority of their capacity to military production for now, but I would enthusiastically buy a Ukrainian drone over a Chinese one once the war is heading towards a positive resolution, and consumer production becomes more of a thing.
Their site, for those interested. They’ve got a ~350ish USD model with a 2kg capacity, 25km range, and 3km max altitude. That seems… really good for the price.
Hope they become the largest producers of drones, like how India produce more motorcycles than China. It can be done.
India is the largest producer of motorcycles, surpassing China in the 2016-17 financial year with sales of over 17.59 million motorcycles.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/245751/india-becomes-worlds-largest-motorcycle-manufacturer/
Damn, that does sound good. I hope they kick Russia’s ass, we wanna do business with them!
“entirely locally made” = 80% Ukraine made according to their website.
I didn’t find a parts list but entirely locally made seems like a stretch regarding electronics.
TIL Flight controllers use STM32 processors that are made around the world in various fabs. Nice. 👍
