“Could we not mass manufacture explosive drones of all kinds here in the US...”
No the USA can’t. The industrial base has been outsourced and is dependent on imports from countries like China.
here is the Raytheon CEO saying tha company cannot decouple form china since they have thousands of subcontractors supplying components.
Yes, USA military production depends on China.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4173068/posts
If Iran and Belarus can mass produce drones t use AGAINST Ukraine I’m sure we can make something in prodigious large numbers to compensate and indeed overwhelm these. Can be “dumb” V-1 V2 buzz bombs if necessary. Send them indiscriminately across the border into Russia and let their entire population worry about the war for a nice change. Thoughts?