Comments on: To build your own drone batteries, you have to source quality cells from a reliable supplier and assemble them into battery packs https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/to-build-your-own-drone-batteries-you-have-to-source-quality-cells-from-a-reliable-supplier-and-assemble-them-into-battery-packs/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:23:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/to-build-your-own-drone-batteries-you-have-to-source-quality-cells-from-a-reliable-supplier-and-assemble-them-into-battery-packs/comment-page-1/#comment-3762282 T. Beholder Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:06:31 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53404#comment-3762282 And back to UAV… The other side of screwdriver shacks is easy technical deniability, that falls short of plausible if anyone not happy with it is paying attention.

See “The myth of ‘Ukrainian’ drones: What’s really behind the production chain” on RT https://www.rt.com/news/638518-myth-of-ukrainian-drones/
(via Simplicius https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/serious-escalation-russian-mod-implies )

]]> By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/to-build-your-own-drone-batteries-you-have-to-source-quality-cells-from-a-reliable-supplier-and-assemble-them-into-battery-packs/comment-page-1/#comment-3759370 T. Beholder Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:24:06 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53404#comment-3759370 What’s new about this? It’s much the same thing as “SKD assembly”, only not owned by an umbrella corporation.

Buy the high tech parts and anything else not locally available, in bulk. Ship it all to a small assembly shop somewhere close to the customers. Which uses mostly (often exclusively) unqualified labor, since they only put the end product together.

This saves some overhead, transportation costs (vs. hauling containers inefficiently stuffed with bulky plastic cases full of air, and on top of this lots of plastic foam so they won’t break), and can BS around half-assed attempts at protectionism.

Consumer products were typically made this way in the entire ex-USSR about from the day when the borders opened and cheap OEM parts from SE Asia became available, give or take a week. Not just electronics… unfortunately, since cheap imported metal usually is utter crap.

The common slang term for these “manufacturers” is “screwdriver enterprises”.

]]> By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/to-build-your-own-drone-batteries-you-have-to-source-quality-cells-from-a-reliable-supplier-and-assemble-them-into-battery-packs/comment-page-1/#comment-3759364 Michael van der Riet Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:53:19 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53404#comment-3759364 Shrinkwrapping cells into battery packs is not rocket science. You have to read Hambling’s article to discover that some of the Wild Hornet product is very sophisticated. However, it’s critical to remember that the war is between the US and Russia, with Ukrainians the squishy stuff caught between a rock and a hard place. The patriotic Hambling takes care to depict a nation that makes Soyuz rockets, hypersonic missiles, fighter jets and various other high-tech as bumbling amateurs who can’t put a decent drone together.

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