The tabloids (and Google's AI) would have you believe the UK government recently supplied 140 British drones to Ukraine at a cost to you and I of £40 million, but in fact they are sourced from New Zealand firm SYOS ~ although they do manufacture on the south coast of England as you'd expect, as we can at least supply both GRP and Japanese outboards to furnish them.
As boats go, it could have been drafted a century ago and it's one reason that albeit reluctantly I need to keep developing the flat-cat: my boat, it's better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge.
I've asked the team at Teledrone Verify (that's me and the cat) to look into this and though we know where they are made, we're not revealing that because the Soviets have a habit of paying the unemployed or Eastern European immigrants ~ of which we've many in the UK ~ to go and burn it down.
Nonetheless it's safe I feel to suggest that in the background that's the tower that looks like a sailing boat over in Portsmouth. As ever nowadays, instead of making cars, boats or aeroplanes we just make things that look like them to feel better.
We used to be the ones supplying manufactures to other countries to set up their own facility, tho' invariably this state of affairs appears to have been reversed. It's not altogether a bad thing though ~ the Manchester firm Gardner took a licence to manufacture Otto's atmospheric engine, meaning they cornered the market in just about every four-stroke engine in the UK subsequent.
Absorbed into AEG who made the iconic London double-decker buses, they were eventually bought out by Rolls-Royce... who knew a thing or two about making engines themselves.
