Ukraine, Israel buying Chinese civilian drones for combat use; shun US military-grade drones. 

slowly, but surely......"made in China" is not a laughing matter anymore, especially in the high tech electronic industries!!

There's DJI drones that are the size of mini go-karts used by farmers to fertilizes crops in China. It's amazing.

Ukraine, Israel buying Chinese civilian drones for combat use! The US manufacture junk drones. Even Chinese toy drones are better than US military grade drones! 😂😂😂😂😂

Chinese drones bought at toy store is better than our military ones. Wow!

If a chinese toy works better than US military grade drones, just imagine the capabilities of Chinese military ones equipped more advanced tech...

I may have said before, but during Korean War, Chines PLA with 600k soldiers defeated and pushed back 2 million US + UN army in a matter of weeks. Chinese army was only equipped with rifles, machine guns, mortars, and shovels. They dug tunnels for safety and surprise attack, and also warmth during the winter. US and UN army were equipped with tanks, heavy guns, air support, and all the high tech equipment, and lost. They had numerical and technological superiority, but a lot of them froze to death. Now, China has better weapons, hypersonic missiles, nukes, and fancy new jet fighters and destroyers and cyber war capabilities. Not hard to guess who'd win.

"Russians will never have this technology!" -Harry Truman, 1945. edit: DJI holds all the major (good ones) patents on drones, that's one of the reasons the US can't make them. It goes from blades on rotors, rotors, certain control systems etc. Being in "good relations with China" US can't hope China will ever allow DJI to sell the rights to use patents that the US needs. So in a nutshell, the US foreign policy put the US in a tough spot that they earned with the arrogance, lying and pissing off the whole world. Enjoy your rewards, there are more to come after Yellen threatened China yesterday.

I stopped being pro American in 1990s... This does not surprise me one bit

The Chinese made it clear repeatedly that they want no war but peace, though they've got everything that's needed for one!

All the people I know who are into drone videography and photography use DJI. They also manufacture drones that cost thousands of $ where you can mount professional video cameras. In fact, they have expanded into drones for agriculture use, high voltage power lines inspection,etc. Frank Wang Tao, who founded DJI did his Master's thesis in drone controls technology. He started DJI and ran it out from his dorm at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Together with a few friends he went to Shenzhen to start his company. As they say, the rest is history. DJI has over 70% share in the consumer drone market. He is the first drone billionaire. The U.S. Army decided to build their own drones after blacklisting DJI. However, the drones they built were several times more expensive than DJI and not even half as good!

This is another china high quality and affordable product which benefit the world , the world should appreciates and thank china . Apple phone owned the world most expensive company worth 2.3 trillion usd where no other global brand can compete, luckily and thank God we have china to produce affordable and quality phones where everyone can affort and enjoy technology brings . Thank you China and keep up the good works ❤

Not surprised DJI don't want their drone used in combat, don't forget the Chinese do invente gunpowder just for fun.

The US bans dji drones with some of the best infra-red and mapping capabilities in the world.🙈 these drones are also very inexpensive when compared US made weapons grade drones 🙄. 🙉😂

DJI drones are banned in the US, shouldn't they be banned in Israel as well.

Is this what Janet Yelling talking about China's over capacity.

DJI banned sales to Russia and Ukraine when found out they were using for war. Russia and Ukraine buy DJI drones from other countries.

These are civilian drones. Imagine China military grade equipments

China military drones have AI in them.. And PLA has drones of the shape of eagles, the birds, sharks that can home in on enemy forces without being distinguished. Drones that look like eagles, flying like eagles in intricate fashion. Chinese military has Drone Swarms that acts like insect Swarms, moving without collision and 'thinking' independently

China had banned the export of certain types of drone after the war started.

Good observation again, as usual.

Chinese civilian technologies are experiencing so much competition that they have surpassed western (and sometimes Chinese military) tech. Drones is a classic example. You see videos online of drone carrying a grenade, flying a few kilometers and dropping the grenade. But in China, agricultural drones are used to spray pesticide, that has range longer than rockets and can carry a tank of pesticide (40-50kg), capable of carrying a legit small warhead across the frontlines. Other examples include: the Chinese military looked into buying the arresting gear to slow down landing aircraft, when they had a tender process, they found that the ones used on American aircraft carriers were made in China, by a company that produced different variety of cabling. The Chinese military also looked into getting high quality carbon fiber, but found one of the companies to be a fishing equipment maker that uses carbon fiber.

Shouldnt Yellen warn the Chinese about such sales to Ukraine and Israel, threatening sanctions? Hiporcrisy and double standards?

51 years ago the US put a man on the moon. Now we can barely put a ladder on a wall.

Drone technology is just the tip of the iceberg. The Chinese don't blow much trumpet on what they have. You will only see it on the day of the gunfight at OK Coral. Good luck.

Americans can’t build drones because it was the Chinese who invented these drones in the first place as toys. And it’s them that have the most experience in manufacturing drones. Likewise the drones that’s build by US companies are actually parts ship from China and assembled in USA then they call it made in USA. 😂

So, no one condemns China for selling weapons to Israel and Ukraine, but condemn it for trading with Russia and Iran. That's funny 😂😂😂

Indeed you have raised a real interesting scenario! The DJI drones are sold as toys and yet they could be easily modified to counter the opposition in wars! Surely the Chinese PLA knows of this and they are not really bothered. This could only because the PLA thought they are toys!

"It might even crash on top of my head." I almost laughed, but it's not funny.

One of the other aspect that is not mentioned is the sheer volume of production. A single drone from DJI costs about $2,000 AUD in Sydney after all the taxes. If DJI's tech is used in the Chinese military, then they do not need a controller for each drone (suicide drones just fly in, explode), they can build a single controller for all the drones, save costs. There is no safety features, like automatic stopping the propellers when it detects human presence or guard rails aruond the propellers, save costs. There is no need to make the rotors to last for enduring flight, recharge, and more flight. A suicide drone just need to operate once for about 4-5 hours to find its target, save costs. If you already know the trajectory, you can remove the GPS/BDS communication system and install a system that programs the flight path in before launch, so it cannot be hacked, save costs. If you are certain of the target and trajectory, you don't really need a camera. You certainly don't need a 4k 60fps camera, just a camera good enuogh to see where it is going is enough. save costs. If DJI is building for the Chinese military, then it cannot make massive profits or risk getting 'nationalised', save costs. What happens if the Chinese military launch a swarm of thousands of drones at the cost of $500 each? Are we going to defend against it with missiles that cost 1.2 million each? or with AA guns that even the bullets costs about this much?

It is not a question that how much better Chinese military drones than Chinese civilian drones, it is a question of how many more. During military ops, the number of drone coming is non-stop.

The reason US drones manufacturer do not have "electronic warfare" defence is that they actually believe in their Media "fake news" and govt propaganda. The Rusdians cant build electronics, the Russians are salvaging washing machine parts for electronics.. this is a real good one😂😂😂3

Hahaha.....see...even israelis buying Made In China instead of MADE IN MURICAAAAAA ahahahahaha

China drone production is over capacity again😅

Great report. Much appreciated 😊

made in China > made in US

Good on ha Kevin , l really enjoy your work , cheers

When a manufacturer goal is profit and not the purpose then It has to fail in the field.

Tariffs, bans and sanctions could not enable the US to make decent and reliable drones. LOL

The evidence shows that the US, the world's most powerful naval forces, were incapable of halting. The Yemen's Houthi rebels as they targeted commercial cargo ships in the Red Sea. While playing defense, the U.S. Standard Missile-2 surface-to-air missiles, which cost more than $2 million per missile, are likely being used by the Navy to eliminate Houthi drone attacks.

Chinese drones are the truth🔥🔥🔥

I live in the US. most every tool I own/ buy and use for my work in the trades are built in China. The most bang for your buck. I wont change that. Especially in this economy and the greed of all the US manufacturers. Prime example, who can afford a $90k truck or a $50k to $90k EV. I refuse to buy American made crap

Gulf Arabian countries bought various kinds of Chinese top-grade military drones and these drones could be sent to Gaza.

There are also talks that before banning chinese drones, the US bought huge quantities of chinese drones for their military

Both sides aren't buying consumer drones anymore. They're buying Chinese components, 3D printing the chassis and propellers, and assembling them because it's even cheaper.

i never understood y the us govt accepted weapons providers to charge billions of dollars for systems that never quite worked properly y would the us govt accept cost over runs so that some programs like the f22 program delivered far fewer planes than originally planned for. any cost over runs and deficiencies should be paid for by the manufacturers not the govt now we have this situation where the us govt buys overly expensive weapons that dont quite work

We should be promoting stopping wars rather than comparing weapons fuck sake.

This is ridiculous. The militia uses chewing gum, masking tapes, pens, etc.- everything you can buy from walmart during their battles and conflicts too. Should they all be banned too?

China is 10,000 miles away. When the fish in lake michigan speak Chinese l will let you know

The use of Chinese drones by IDF, Russians and Ukrainians must be the best publicity for DJI.

Their drones are better than ours. Their BeiDou navigation system is better than our GPS navigation system. What’s next? Their jets?

😮 kevin, morning, maybe you should do the story of the Chinese destroyer type 055 that single handed beat the eae f18 growler electronic jamming capablities. The carl vincent carrier group was going to spy on the chinese war games in the SCS when it was interupted by the 055 headon. The carl vinson was group was turn away by the one destroyer 055. The carl vinson group commander was relief of his duties after that in late 2023.😮

I saw one these drones in one of vlogs of wetern couple traveling in China! It was delivering some lunch. It landed inside a drone-port that looks like a box and he typed in code. The door openned and you get your lunch. So cool.

US engineers are not intelligent and lazy. I know it because I used to work in a US company and I was an engineer. US engineers just know how to talk, but do not understand the basic engineering principles. For example, an engineer team of 15 people decided in a meeting to test if Bernoulli's Equation is valid (spent 4 weeks) and also test if the water will lose (thru evaporating)half of volume when it flows out from the faucet (spent 1 week).

Excellent analysis site.

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.

The thought-provoking questions you pose at the end of your video are worth considering. Thanks for an interesting insight into the world of toy drones!

Speaking of drones, Chinese are test flying human-carrying taxis now. A year from now, these taxis will be in commercial use.

Strange world we live in

thx for sharing

There are more chinese engineers and scientists in China than there are chinese engineers and scientists in the US, thus China has the edge.

Very interesting! Great insight! Before we know it, Ukrainians might buy up old Chinese EVs and repurpose it for battle

OK .... I am Awake now 🤯

China military has designed some Big drones that can fly long distance , and can split into 6-8 small drones before attacking targets in a relatively big area . Aircraft Carriers will have big trouble facing this kind of Big drones !

Taking it a bit further, it costs millions to train a fighter pilot and that pilot is very precious and maybe irreplaceable. How long before AL pilots a jet fighter and flies better than any human?

I saw this one drone called a Black Hornet Nano which is used by the Pentagon, it costs $150k for a small toy like drone.

it is not perfect but nice back ground，thank you Kevin and your team

When even the U.S. Defense Dept. bought Chinese drones for its combat troops in defiance of the White House's degree, all other nations including Israel and Ukraine of course prefer the better ones.

At last there is invention to prevent bullies in this jungle law.

The Chinese turned off an american super carrier GPS for 1 month

Is all about making money. Not about what is good for the soldiers.

If we continue to allow a duopoly political system in the US we will be enriching the MIC and these politicians and bureaucrats

DJI should be able to turn off the drones used by Ukrainian remotely, according to US Commerce secretary Gina Raimondo.

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This discussion highlight the issue of duo use in technology. When need arises, end-user will modify technology for use as situation requires. A knife can be used in kitchen as much as in gang fight or robbery/murder. The blind sanctions just because the technology can be used for military is very problematic and brain dead...

I like small channel like this. Good info, no trolls (yet).

Yellen went to Guangzhou, and without the knowledge of Austin bought heaps of DJI drones for the defense dept. She used overcapacity as a smoke screen and a third party to do the deal.

I think this drone story feeds into the American exceptionalism mindset, where a disturbingly significant portion of Americans as well as their leaders have been so utterly convinced of their technological and developmental superiority for so long by the media and Hollywood, that they haven't kept pace with developments in other countries and are often surprised to find that other people have a greater capacity than they expected. You see that exceptionalist mindset in the views of a lot of Americans online when faced with facts they cannot accept. "American military grade drones are worse than Chinese toy drones that anyone can buy from ToysRUs." Typical American reply? "Yes well, our military is only giving them crap drones that we don't want from 10 years ago. Our military has a drone that can single-handedly defeat 100 fighter jets by itself." "I don't understand the fuss over iPhones. I own both Apple and Samsung phones and I'm often surprised by how inferior my iPhone is to my Samsung." Typical American reply? "I can't even talk to anyone who uses an android device." "I think the US and NATO should be careful about taking on Russia. Russia is used to fighting wars against proper armies, Americans have mainly fought nations they were overwhelmingly superior to." Typical American reply? "Russia's army is using equipment from the time of the Flintstones. If they mess with us our army will bring down our secret death star and bomb them into infinity." The US is truly a great nation but it has to stop believing that it is at the forefront of everything. Recent events in the world are starting to show us, regardless of media propaganda, that the US has been standing still while other nations have quietly advanced themselves.

Sometimes a month is all you need. France fell to the German in a month.

China excess capacity in Drones must be banned in US, Israel and Ukraine. These products are freely available to friendly and neutral countries.

imagine the quality of the drones that the Chinese govt produces for their military

Now I know the real reason why US is banning DJI.

DJI has 80% of world drone market. Go figure

Good questions

The Americans keep saying that they're so technologically advanced and that they're so intelligent and capable in warfare. This drone story proves them wrong. Stories about F-35 problems also prove them wrong.

If China needs it, he can have 10 million military drones in a month. Imagine 1 million drones flying at you with bombs tied at the same time.

American women also realized that Chinese made dxxxo work better, longer, harder than American made ...

It is clear drones and robots will play a primary role in future conflicts and China is the biggest producer of both. That says it all.

And I wonder why my monthly cell phone services cost 10x more than the rest of the world and we’re still using 3 & 4g while China’s moving on to 6g and average unlimited data service in most parts of the world is $8-12/month.

Chinese drones can use China Beidu satellite navigation

Chinese are just smarter and have more engineers. Discovered that since I was 14 in high school.

If this is DJI's commercial drones, how good are the ones DJI make for the PLA?

Our new young western technician’s can’t be this useless surely…….. I’m not talking about military equipment only. What is Happening all over the Western countries.

The US has already had to Musk-O-Vite its finances, r&d, entrepreneurships, space investment more than twice. This while erstwhile relationships with Russian cosmonauts and the advanced technologies they’re representing, with us, on the frontier had been good. Who else we can lean on to help us lean against this in opposition to friendly games, is dwindling from our own dwindling ops. Oobooboo!

Cheap drones are just what they are, you use cheap drones for the task, that requres exactly that, expensible drones.

It's interesting to note that people that have been to China don't agreed with the trolls.

Too much fucking WAR!!!

Plastic Flowers in the 60. Now these

The fundamental point to understand as regards the US defence procurement policy is that the Goal of the purchasing process is NOT to build effective and required weapon systems for the Military to use in War. Its purpose is to distribute wealth from the US state to a coalition of interested parties ranging from Politicians , Defence news organizations, think tanks, the makers themselves the Senior military officers etc. The obvious issues with the US defence procurement systems like overruns in the schedule and the budget or the fact that the Systems dont actually work ( looking at you LCS) are not bugs they are features

Silicon Valley engineers are working for DJI. All brushless drone motors are manufactured in China.

i suppose, drones for public use and are relatively inexpensive get massively more design/testForUtilityByThePublic/modify production cycles than overengineering=profit, ponderously managed development, military contractor drones.