From an electrical engineering perspective, the one thing that strikes me is just how cheaply some of the engineering that goes into FPV drones actually is.
Like everything is thick wires hand soldered
If you look at DJI and their PCBs they use flexible PCBs for a ton and sensible sane connectors. Getting the board design, the ESD, back EMF right probably took them a ton of time in design and validation but once they did … they stamped it out.
It can be done again and might actually make sense to do as an opensource effort. Even with the fully assembled PCB … it wouldn’t be terrible.
Could totally be done in the US, but I doubt for things other than military applications a US company is going to put the time in to do something like that. In DJIs case, they were at the very least probably state subsidized early on.
We don’t have a similar push specifically in the US other than for defense which tells me our country still isn’t serious about any of this.