Comment by adolph

> Banning DJI drones in the US lets you build a factory in the US that can eventually get costs down.

1. It is a bad idea to use national defense in this manner. There are more honest tools that can be used, see two.

2. Using tariff or other trade tools can blunt the impact of DJI's market position and allow for US entrants to develop. [0]

A weakness of both nat-sec bans and tariffs is that they don't actually do anything to encourage a company like Anduril to make the pro/sumer stuff needed for volume sales to develop broad acceptance, fast iteration and well founded supply chains.

0. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/larger-lesson...