US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone

Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by vwoolf on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:34PM (#38678651)

The U.S. and Europe really shouldn't allow DJI sales: DJI is in effect part of the PLA, and they're amortizing military research across worldwide sales.

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by skavi on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:29AM (#38679804)

Maybe you intend this, but that argument could be applied to many other product segments.

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by justsomehnguy on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:36AM (#38679841)

> Europe

There is a country what happily used DJI drones to harass their own people for years, and now happily use them to kill them and not only them.

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by justinclift on Monday December 18, 2023 @06:06AM (#38681140)

Examples?

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by lazide on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:15AM (#38684479)

Since when is Europe a country?

Even the EU is at best a loose (and obviously voluntary/ephemeral what with the UK) collection of generally aligned states.

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by rasz on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:57AM (#38684198)

I would readily agree with you (part of PLA, recruiting brightest minds with RoboMasters competition to build future AI driven drone swarms), except for the fact DJI sells top quality products at bottom dollar prices. If anything DJI is flooding the market with product so good and cheap it destroys any potential margins for western suppliers, forcing companies like Skydio into expensive niches.

Same thing is happening with high quality cameras, Im sure GoPro is not happy, and neither is Blackmagic.

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