"Well it can't get any worse" And "Well, you gotta do something"
The first is almost always dead wrong. Trust me, you can make anything worse.
As for the second, it's shockingly coming that in a given scenario, the best action is to not do anything different at all. It may seem like things are bad and something has to change, but changing your strategy at this point can still definitely make things worse. Sometimes inaction is the correct action.
Well, DJI has the market cornered in quadcopter/multirotor drones. But what do they have with wings?
From the sound of it, this program is also quite interested in vehicles with longer loiter times and heavier payload capacity (winged aircraft). And they're explicitly interested in seeding smaller companies with funding that would allow them to realize whatever innovations they may have and scale up. So with that in mind, it may be irrelevant that DJI dominates the multirotor drone market.
I guess we'll find out in time.
Well, let's hope.
I mean, I'm not making any assumptions...
My faith that this plan will succeed is a bit shaken by the other news story about the Navy today: the Navy ran out of pants.
We can't seem to produce enough pants for our sailors and marines, but we expect to produce "thousands upon thousands" of fancy new drones? Well I do hope it all works out, but uh, I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
You're not wrong...
Nations will certainly bend over backward to ensure access to strategic resources. Unfortunately for Ukraine, grain isn't a highly demanded resource.
Finding some niche technology or product to specialize in would probably be a really good idea. They have experience with rocket engine manufacturing, though that's not a huge market. I suppose they could always extend that to munitions manufacturing, it seems there's always a market for that... Sigh...
Apparently, there's more than one way to skin a cat. And some of the ways don't cost billions in R&D.
Yeah, I bet there are some fishy sequences.
Don't feel bad, on my first flight I ran into the sun by accident.
There's an achievement for that though, so it all works out.
Meh, if you want a thin TV, just get an OLED, it's what that technology was designed for.
What a coincidence! This is my favorite hill to troll people on!
It's absolutely meaningless, it just doesn't matter, and people are sooo opinionated about it!