How China became the world’s leading exporter of combat drones

How China became the world’s leading exporter of combat drones

Cheap, ‘good enough’ Chinese armed drones dominating world market due to US export controls, analysts say.

How China became the world’s leading exporter of combat drones

Cheap, ‘good enough’ Chinese armed drones dominating world market due to US export controls, analysts say. The CH-6 drone on display at the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in 2021 in the southern city of Zhuhai, China [File: Ng Han Guan] By Zaheena Rasheed From Saudi Arabia to Myanmar and Iraq to Ethiopia, more and more militaries across the world are stockpiling Chinese combat drones and deploying them on the battlefi…