I hope we’re getting more resilient overall, not only in drone motors. Globalization, if you’re a fan or not, doesn’t really work if your partners aren’t trustworthy.

As someone in the motor fabrication business, stamping and adhering the stators are something that is really hard to do price-competitively compared to China and India.

Winding machines are also insanely expensive for people trying to break into the industry to become more independent, and they are mostly chinese-made nowadays too. Older-secondhand Italian equipment exists, but I don’t know about new stuff, also probably much more expensive