With the gradual development of drone technology and the rapid improvement of the performance of related products, drones have undoubtedly become a key existence in many fields. Drones play an important role in many fields, including agriculture, search and rescue, detection, and aerial photography.
Not only that, in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, drones have also performed well, which has attracted widespread attention from the international community, which has also made various countries begin to pay attention to the development of the drone industry.
However, at this time, the United States and the West suddenly realized that in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, China's market share, influence, and technological level have reached the top, and they can be "stuck" at any time. According to relevant data, in the global drone market, China's exports of drone products have accounted for about 7% of the total.
Not only that, many countries' local drone companies are still using a large number of China's drone technology, drone parts, to put it bluntly, if China completely blocks the shipment of drone parts and technology, many foreign drone companies will fall into production stagnation.
In the eyes of the United States, "I have never had the share of someone else's neck, how can someone else have a share of my neck", so the United States used the patent to frame and not only required the Chinese drone unicorn company DJI to pay 2The $800 million fine also tries to require DJI to disclose the drone's core technology.
But what Biden didn't expect was that DJI would directly and forcefully reply, directly saying: It is better to withdraw from the US market than to pay the fine. In fact, the United States has always wanted to ban the sale of DJI's drone products in the American market, but the American drone companies are "not competitive", the cost of production is higher than DJI's shipments, and the performance is far from being comparable with DJI's drone products.
This has led to DJI's drone share in the U.S. market accounting for more than 8 percent, if DJI withdraws from the U.S. market, many U.S. companies will face the embarrassing status quo of grounding, not to mention that the U.S. fire department is using a large number of DJI drone products.
Originally, I thought that the United States' measures against DJI could be used as a wake-up call, but what people didn't expect was that India, which wanted to "compare" with China in every field, began again.
According to the latest news, India announced that it would cut orders for Chinese drones dominated by DJI, and also arrogantly said that "invest 1.."Rs 6 trillion self-developed alternative". 1.6 trillion rupees is equivalent to about 140 billion yuan, which is a lot of money.
Therefore, many foreign countries have begun to advocate the development of drones in India, "Made in India will begin to overtake, and DJI's status is not guaranteed". But in fact, professionals in the field of Indian drones said: abandon illusions as soon as possible, we are not a little bit worse.
Made in India in recent years has indeed had good development results, in some foreign-funded enterprises have invested in India to build factories and Apple, Dell and other American and Western enterprises to transfer the OEM industry chain, India has indeed begun to develop in some manufacturing industries. For example, according to the data released by market research agencies, India's mobile phone shipments in 2022 will exceed 200 million units, making it a major smartphone manufacturer second only to China.
However, in the field of drones, it is not so easy for India to achieve domestic substitution. After all, judging from the data released by the Indian UAV industry, the localization of Indian military UAV parts is about 40%, and only about 5% of the parts of civilian UAVs are domestic.
According to the level of localization of this part, if India invests 16 trillion US dollars may still have a chance to catch up with China, if it is 1Rs 6 trillion is probably not much of a chance.
However, some industry insiders have put forward different views: from the perspective of India's ban, the import of drone parts from China is restricted, but there is no restriction on the whole drone, nor is there any restriction on the drone parts produced by Chinese manufacturers in India.
From this point of view, it is possible that India is trying to attract Chinese drone manufacturers to build factories in India through parts bans and subsidies. In fact, this is not the first time that India has used this method, in the fields of smart phones, PCs and computers, India has done similar markets, through the imposition of tariffs on imported products, tax relief for locally produced products, to attract foreign-funded enterprises to relocate the industrial chain to India.
Endurance, stability, quietness, etc. are all important indicators of drone products, and a large number of core technologies are required as a process to achieve certain standards. The reason why DJI has become a unicorn company in the field of drones, occupying more than 7% of the global market share and more than 8% of the market share in the U.S. market is supported by its more than 5,000 core patented technologies.
If India wants to completely "decouple and break the chain" with China in the field of drones, it needs the support of a large number of core technologies and manufacturing capacity, which cannot be achieved overnight in a short period of time. At present, India's ban on the import of Chinese drone parts has led to an increase in the production cost of the local drone industry by more than 5 times, which is undoubtedly a serious blow to the development of India's local drone industry.
Postscript:
India, the United States and other countries want to get rid of their dependence on Chinese drone products, India has issued a drone ban, restricting the import of Chinese drone parts, and intends to spend 140 billion to promote the development of the local drone industry. However, judging from the current situation, it is basically impossible for India to realize the localization of drones in a short period of time.
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