>illegal for DJI drones to use U.S. communications infrastructure<p>aka prevent from phoning home, sounds surprisingly reasonable!<p>>Using his network, Warnas reached a licensing deal with DJI to manufacture the Raptor drones in Malaysia, using the core design and internal chipset of the DJI Mavic 3 platform. He could then import and sell the drones in the U.S. under the Anzu Robotics brand.<p>Upton Sinclair strikes hard here. You are still using Chinese chips and firmware.<p>>On the software side, Warnas signed a deal with U.S.-based Aloft AI (formerly Kittyhawk) to provide the flight control software on the controller.<p>What about the other part of the equation - drone radio firmware? Because it does still transmit unwanted things in sideband channels, for example Aeroscope <a href="https://github.com/proto17/dji_droneid">https://github.com/proto17/dji_droneid</a>