from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 2026 23:44
https://lemmy.zip/post/57492647
Thousands of miles away from the front line, Russian and Ukrainian supply chains converge in the drab industrial parks and anonymous high-rise office blocks of Guangdong and Shenzhen. Here, the companies producing the tiny components that keep the drone war alive try to choreograph the uneasy ballet that ensures the two sides never meet on the same shop floor.
Yakovenko (founder of TAF Industries — now one of Ukraine’s biggest drone producers) says it remains dependent on China for about 85 per cent of the components that go into simple first-person view drones
While Moscow and Washington haggle over an elusive ceasefire, outcomes on the battlefield are increasingly being determined in Guangdong and Zhejiang exhibition halls, message groups on WeChat and by friendships formed over baijiu drinking sessions at hotel bars.
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