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>But in the case of DJI and Huawei and TikTok the US is more concerned about how those chinese companies erode US business like boeing, cisco or Facebook DJI m
by deeeeeplearning 6y ago
>But in the case of DJI and Huawei and TikTok the US is more concerned about how those chinese companies erode US business like boeing, cisco or Facebook
DJI makes consumer grade products and Boeing is a military contractor? How exactly does DJI impact Boeing's bottom line?
- philips 6y agoBoeing does have UAV programs afaict. And from the article: > “The US Congress is considering banning the US federal government from using foreign-made drones as part of its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act,” reported Flight. A junior US defence minister, Ellen Lord, in charge of procurement, added to the aerospace magazine: “We looked at the fact that basically DJI from China had decimated our industrial base for small UAVs, quadcopters and so forth, through pricing that was sub-cost and so forth.”
- 0xffff2 6y agoBoeing drones are things like the MQ-25 [0]. They don't compete with DJI. I'm a researcher (US government contractor) in the aerospace field, and they've been trying to ban us from using DJI drones for years. They keep pushing it back and making exceptions because it has been incredibly hard for us to find anything comparable that's made by a US company (and even then the hardware is all Chinese, it's just assembled in the US and presumably running software that phones home to a server in the US rather than one in China.) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-25_Stingray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-25_Stingray
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- kube-system 6y agoNot a surprise, since I doubt many US companies can sell their drones sub-cost.