China’s drone production capacity can only meet 60% of war demand: study

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A study using an AI model found that China’s drone production capacity can meet only 60% of military demand in a conflict. The study assessed supply chains, inventories, and budgets relevant to drone assembly and components.

Even when fully mobilised, China’s industrial system would only be able to meet 60 per cent of the country’s military demand for drones in a conflict, according to a rare study looking into the expected effects of a sudden war. The estimates were produced by an artificial intelligence model that covered a multilevel supply chain linking drone assembly plants with subsystem and component suppliers. The study also accounted for inventories, production capacity, order backlogs, budgets and civilian...