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> I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from... With recent trends - have any of them

• lifestyleguru 2y ago
  In post-Communist countries the defense industry is rock solid corruption and nepotism, mostly they assemble things on foreign licenses. In developed countries like Italy, France, Germany, Sweden defense industry don't hire foreigners and also nepotism, and even there the engineering jobs are meh. Basically there is no defense industry boom. There might be some drone related interesting things happening in Ukraine itself as they can squeeze out a lot of extremely cheap labor but you rather don't want to emigrate to Ukraine.
  • sharpshadow 2y ago
    Turkiye build themselves a strong and advanced drone industry.
    • lifestyleguru 2y ago
      Bayraktar is a son in law of Erdoğan.
      • p_l 2y ago
        And from what I recall, even then they are more of an exception to the rule (something about not toeing the line on father-in-laws ideas...)
        • sharpshadow 2y ago
          Selçuk Bayraktar their CTO got a PhD from MIT.[1] If I recall it right Turkiye wasn’t allowed to buy some military equipment and they made it themselves. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar
          • lifestyleguru 2y ago
            This certainly helped and that's why he is producing drones instead of crossbows, but the secret sauce is dictator father in law.
            • sharpshadow 2y ago
              Since when is Erdogan considered a dictator?