By Josh Chin, Merrill Sherman, Jason French and Ievgenia SivorkaWith drones revolutionising the battlefield in Ukraine, Iran and beyond, the US is striving to dominate this latest evolution in military technology the way it has with previous wartime innovations. There is just one problem: China got there first.Teardowns of drones recovered in Ukraine hint at the extent of China’s stranglehold on production. A recent dissection of a Russian first-person-view, or FPV, quadcopter by the Bulava unit of Ukraine’s Presidential Brigad...
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