China сuts drone sales to Ukraine, West but continues supplying Russia, Bloomberg reports

https://kyivindependent.com/china-suts-drone-sales-to-ukraine-west-but-continues-supplying-russia-bloomberg-reports/amp/

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ziggystar@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What does it take to make our own magnets? Magnets seem to be important. Though no one knows how they work...

smokeysnilas@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

You can still get the engines, batteries, controller boards, cameras, transceivers, gyro sensors, propellers, screws, cables, ... from china without problem. You just need to do the assembly yourself. I guess that's no loss because most probably Ukraine wants to mod the drones for their military needs anyway. So in reality that's barely news, the only effect I can imagine might be a slight annoyance for volunteer units and self-organized donations. They now can't use off-the-shelf DJI drones but have to go for brands that do the final assembly outside of china.

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

High strength magnets require a non-trivial amount of infrastructure to produce, but mainly they require rare earth elements that china is already restricting the sale of. This seems like a move more to do with the tarrifs than Ukraine though, since as the other commentor pointed out, you can still get all the parts.