All of this is part of a continuous campaign of asymmetric warfare. We need to ban flight of DJI drones, disable them all through some means, or confiscate them all. Unfortunately that may only affect law abiding citizens and the ones looking to conduct espionage or disrupt operations will still just do whatever they want to do. But the bigger problem is that American politicians have been absolutely asleep at the wheel in managing China. They need to be FAR more aggressive with China, wage asymmetric warfare back, and even wage direct warfare by destroying key Chinese properties like ship building facilities, to reduce their ability to gain power.
This reads like a carricature of patriotic 80s movie dialogue. At least it skips the bodily fluids part.
It's tit for tat for the threats of them getting banned, that's all.
Nobody needs commercial local drones for all that, nation states have had powerful satellites and other means. Jackie Chan flying a Mavic over some facility ain't gonna reavel shit anybody doesn't already know...
Why suggest something so absurd
>>wage direct warfare by destroying key Chinese properties like ship building facilities,
oh.
Is there any American drone company making better drones?
I just don’t see how this feature wouldn’t be a major liability to DJI. Am I wrong?
Given the continuing drone idiocies with the California fires, I would expect a blanket ban coming unless an automated system can instantly comply with FAA airspace restrictions.
Cars don't refuse to get into one way streets and it's 100% the drivers fault.
A destroy-on-sight policy for unauthorized drones in restricted airspaces seems like a good enough solution for this problem without online censorship. Don't want your expensive drone blown to smithereens? Don't fly it where you ain't supposed to be flying it.
(And on the flip-side, the FAA and other authorities need to provide real-time public access to maps of those restricted areas - which I wouldn't be surprised if they're already doing, but still)
They're referring to the new administration, so pivoting away from this designation.
I mean, how many regular people buy drones, and how often? My guess would be one in 50 buys a new drone every 4 years. With that kind of demand, I guess Russia and Ukraine's drone demand might be equivalent to the entire Western world's
If those drones feed back camera data and telemetry, the Chinese might have access to the biggest military drone training dataset in the entire world by far.
Also, it's unlikely front line internet is capable of streaming the video back to DJI.
This could be less about retaliation and more run of the mill profiteering.
With no long term future viable a short term solution might be to just unlock the drones and capture the rest of the market.
Which is what I think is happening here.
From perspective of China, it seems they are winning as US is copying them. The bans, the protection of their industries, restricting free speech and building a surveillance state.
