Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.

tomasphan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are reprogramming a US built drone to the German datalink equivalent with some AI sprinkled on top. Unfortunately far away from a real industry.

	▲	bluegatty an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's how it was always done. Nobody invented the whole thing from scratch.
	▲	maximinus_thrax 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Some other country started by _stealing_ US tech and now they arguably have a higher military tech throughput. Everyone has to start somewhere..

busterarm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The EU already has the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 10th largest share of global arms exports. Losing the 8th place slot due to Brexit.

	▲	maximinus_thrax 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Akshually it's the the 2nd (France), 5th (Germany), 6th (Italy), and 9th (Spain) spots. But that's a bad argument, say.. a way of lying with statistics, considering the 1st place has 43% of the market share AND that exporting arms is not very relevant when the topic du jour is military build-up. The muscovites for example export 7.8% of the market share but that's not that relevant considering they're using the lion's share of military industrial output to terrorize Ukrainians.