[tonfa]

> instead of getting good at making A LOT of something really cheaply?

also you'd want to maximize dual usage (civil/military) of components so that your production capacity can be easily switched back and forth more on demand.

(Otherwise you just end up a stockpile of obsolete drones/weapons)

[bgnn]

Instead of this we have anti dual-use policies, especially in semiconductor. Any chip a fab produces need hefty paper work to prove it cannot be used for military. This is due to the military-industrial complex lobby. They don't want cheap competition.