With the development of drone technology, in addition to being used as an aerial photography tool by some enthusiasts, drones play a very important role in agriculture, search and rescue, detection and other fields, and even some express companies have begun to try to use drones for distribution.
UAVs have important applications in many fields, which has also made the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries have begun to localize UAVs. But in fact, in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, especially in the field of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, Chinese manufacturers have come to the forefront. In addition to DJI, a drone unicorn company, China's EHang, Xpeng and other drone manufacturers have also developed very rapidly and mastered many core technologies.
The United States develops the drone industry and wants to achieve domestic substitution
Before the United States reacted, Chinese drones had quickly taken over the American market, and even the American fire department was ordering DJI drones in large quantities. According to relevant data, 80% to 85% of the products in the U.S. drone market are shipped by Chinese drone company DJI.
The United States is also worried about being "stuck" by China in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, so it has adopted a series of measures to promote the development of its own unmanned aerial vehicle industry and wants to achieve localized substitution. But the result is that there is no result, and the UAV market in the United States is basically occupied by Chinese manufacturers such as DJI and Xiaopeng.
The U.S. originally wanted to increase tariffs on Chinese drone products entering the U.S. market, so that the sales of Chinese drone products in the U.S. market would increase**, and some consumers might switch to cheaper U.S. products. But what Biden didn't expect was that the domestic drone companies in the United States basically need to import parts from China, and some core technologies are also using Chinese technology.
As a result, the cost of U.S. drone products is several times that of DJI's shipments, but the performance is only about 20% of the demand, which is naturally impossible to meet the needs of the U.S. market, let alone let U.S. consumers buy their own drone products.
There is no doubt that judging from the current situation, the United States' plan to develop its own UAV technology has basically failed, and it is not so easy to achieve domestic substitution in the short term. But what people didn't expect is that recently another country has begun to say "no" to Chinese drones and wants to develop its own drone industry, and this country is India.
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India has a large population, so the size of the Indian market is very large, attracting many foreign companies to invest and build factories. India also wants to develop its own manufacturing industry, and in 2014 it proposed the "Make in India Plan".
In India's view, if it wants a market scale, a technology market, and an industrial chain, why can't it develop its own manufacturing industry. However, not to mention, under the investment of a large number of foreign-funded enterprises, although Indian manufacturing is still not comparable with Chinese manufacturing, it has indeed begun to develop rapidly.
According to relevant data, India's smartphone shipments reached 2500 million units, second only to China to become the world's second largest region in the production of smartphones. Although these smartphones are basically made by non-Indian companies such as Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and OPPO, in India's view, this is the "power" of Made in India.
After the breakthrough in the smartphone manufacturing industry, India has set its sights on new energy vehicles, drones and other emerging industries, judging from the previous news, India has planned to ban the import of Chinese drone parts, in order to promote the development of its own drone industry.
Some industry insiders said that India's ban on the import of Chinese drone parts is actually to want Chinese drone manufacturers to bring the first chain to India to invest and build factories. In this way, even parts produced in India will not be subject to the ban.
India has not been less in this way to attract foreign ** chain entry, in the field of PC computers, smart phones and other fields India has taken a similar approach, in the field of new energy vehicles India seems to have this plan. Not long ago, India agreed to Tesla's plan to invest and build factories in India, but asked Tesla to develop the first chain in India.
In addition to restricting the import of Chinese drone parts, India also came up with 1Rs 6 trillion as an incentive to promote the development of the country's drone industry. However, many people in the industry are not optimistic about India's plan to develop its own drone industry.
After all, judging from India's public information, more than 95% of the parts and components of India's civilian drone industry need to be imported, and the vast majority of them come from China.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if India really develops its own drone industry, in addition to possibly occupying some market share in the Indian market, it is still difficult to compete with China's drone products in the international market. What's more, India's problems in the accumulation of the electronics industry chain, the first chain and infrastructure construction have also made India's breakthrough very rich.
The United States, which has a better technical level than India, has not completed the localization of the UAV industry, not to mention India, which is even more backward in terms of technology
Postscript:
Both India and the United States want to get rid of their dependence on China's drone industry, but it is not difficult to see from the current situation that the American plan has basically failed. India recently banned the import of Chinese drone parts, and also came up with 16 trillion rupees as an incentive, but the industry is generally not optimistic about India's plans to develop its own drone industry.