A Blow to Taxpayers: Mitsubishi Explains Why Car Plants Are Unsuitable for Drone Production
6 July 14:49
Drone production requires constant changes and rapid adaptation to battlefield conditions, so mass-producing such vehicles on traditional automotive assembly lines is inefficient. This view was expressed by Eisaku Ito, CEO of the Japanese corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
In an interview with the Financial Times, the head of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries explained that the organizational structure for UAV production differs radically from that of the automotive industry. According to him, the technical specifications of drones are constantly changing depending on the situation, whereas automobile plants are designed to produce tens of thousands or millions of identical units.
Moving drone production to car factories carries a significant risk of creating equipment that will instantly become obsolete due to rapid technological advancements and rapidly changing military requirements.
“If we go down this path, it will be a massive waste of taxpayers’ money,” Ito emphasized.
The statement came amid the active expansion of Japan’s drone procurement program. In the current fiscal year, the Ministry of Defense has nearly doubled its budget for UAV procurement to 250 billion yen (about $1.7 billion). According to journalists, this has already drawn significant attention to the Japanese market from foreign drone manufacturers and local tech startups.
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