In past wars factories making steel pots made helmets. I can definitely imagine an ev plant making drones.

Drones seem to be quite an important facet of the current war in Ukraine and Russia.

I wonder how fast this factory could be converted produce drones and how fast it could spit them out.

Imagine a circular loop of larger carrier aircraft that load up FPV drones from this factory and fly to their destination to drop them off only to fly back to do it again.

The FPV drones could have object recognition to target people, artillery, infrastructure so they could operate autonomously.

I wonder if they will put the landing pads on the factory roof or next to the factory.

Look at a map of Taiwan. Or better, look at it in Google Earth. Taiwan is a narrow island with a mountain range running north-south down the middle. The developed areas are west of the mountains, facing China, in a strip 15 to 30km wide.

There's no defensive depth. And nowhere for all the people to go in an attack. It's not like Ukraine, where the current fighting is like battling over Iowa, one farm at a time. It's more like Gaza, with too many people crammed into too little land. But bigger.

China has a large number of truck-mounted anti-ship missiles. Bringing US Navy ships in the Taiwan strait means losing many of them. The PLAN has more ships than the US Navy, and is building more at a high rate.

Equally, China has enough missiles to blockade Taiwan permanently. There's no reason for them to attempt an amphibious landing or anything insane like that. It's unclear to me what the US response would be in a blockade situation, but Chinese hypersonic missiles do pose a threat to carriers.

This isn't Desert Storm we're talking about here, China is a real threat.