Palmer Luckey
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I think Anerol will continue to do things that from time to time will turn out to be harder than we thought.
But, you know, I just need to flip more heads than tails.
China has an incredibly strong drone industry.
It is largely a result of state intervention.
It's largely a result of industrial policy, of supply chain investments that the government has made, and even trade deals that China has made around the world to allow for these drones to freely fly out into other marketplaces.
Yeah, China has the best drone industry in the world.
It's definitely a weakness that the United States has.
Now, you saw recently this ban on DJI drones.
The intention there is to try and fix that.
The US is capable of building drones.
It's just we aren't capable of competing with the labor laws, emissions laws, energy prices from coal plants, et cetera, that you see in China.
So I'm hoping that this ban on DJI drones results in a strong US drone market popping up to take its place over the next
Andoril actually is a drone that we were showing off in Japan recently that's made with 100% Japanese parts.
Japan is another nation that can build their own drones.
They don't need DJI, but it's hard for that to make economic sense when China's allowed to flood the market.
Let's pivot and talk about ModRetro.
ModRetro is actually a company I