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What domestic drone industry?




It's right down the street from US domestic coffee, semiconductor, game console, laptop, rare earth mineral, graphite, and banana industries. All these US industries are protected by baseline and reciprocal tariffs.

We have a big semiconductor industry! We just didn't have TSMC.

Skydio and Freefly and a bunch of defense contractors. Skydio is pretty big, IIRC

The entire point is to force the creation of one

A US drone industry would still have to compete with China on the global market. The entire developing world doesn't give a shit about US sanctions.

Perhaps Trump Jr's Unusual Machines.



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