DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by bri3d on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:23PM (#40708290)

High volume single-use drones and DJI drones are almost completely orthogonal in terms of technology, production, and procurement. The only thing they really share is MEMS gyroscopes and brushless motor windings. Making a million FPV bomb drones and making a million consumer camera drones are such dramatically different tasks that there is not a chance this theory holds water.

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by merpnderp on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:44PM (#40708621)

You should look at see what kind of drones are dominating Ukraine's skies. You'd see some water being held. And you probably should have googled this before making this comment.

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by bri3d on Monday June 17, 2024 @02:05PM (#40708938)

I'm quite familiar with this space, thanks :)

DJI drones are being used in significantly lower quantities as "base stations" and long-range reconnaissance applications, with the occasional bomb-dropping side run.

FPV drones are being used in much, much, much higher quantity than DJI drones, owing to their massively lower cost to produce due to ... the simpler and mostly orthogonal supply chain!

Financing a consumer/enterprise camera drone production capability with an end goal of enabling the construction of large quantities of one-way FPV drones, as the parent post to mine suggested, would not be a good strategy, IMO.

Having domestic consumer/enterprise camera drone production capability at all is of course a good idea, but the quantity needed in war fighting is significantly lower, at least with the current tools and techniques seen in Ukraine.

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by dzhiurgis on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:41PM (#40712877)

Most of the kamikaze drone videos I see use Betaflight OSD. DJI is kinda expensive for suicide missions.

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