Neros CEO @soren_ma explains how America's industrial base got left behind: "Today, everyone in the defense startup ecosystem is struggling with suppliers that are not set up for volume, and not set up for scale or lower cost systems." "China has been the biggest beneficiary because they've been supplying both sides of the war and they're probably making tens of millions of drones per year easily, maybe in the hundreds of millions." "We have offshored for the last 30 years, and really optimized for short-term profit margin, and let that manufacturing be done somewhere else, and that somewhere else is primarily China. The national security implication of this was not really well understood, especially until drones started becoming an important part of the battlefield and modern arsenal."