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I think you are conflating two different things here: where you come up with ideas and where you produce the goods.

To stay on the topic of drones, Skydio is an example of a US startup that produced drones in the US, and for some applications, it produced better drones than an established and sophisticated competitor. Is every component in Skydio manufactured in the US, very unlikely ...

I am no DJI hater, I have owned multiple of their drones and I think their products are awesome of extremely high quality. That being said, a SkyDio was light-years ahead of them when it came to high-speed object avoidance.