Converting struggling car factories into production sites for military drones would fail and waste taxpayers’ money, Japan’s largest defence contractor has warned.
Japan’s defence ministry has triggered a frenzy among foreign drone producers and local start-ups trying to break into the domestic market after almost trebling the procurement budget for unmanned vehicles to ¥277bn ($1.7bn) for this financial year.
Eisaku Ito, chief executive of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said he was plotting a major role for the industrial group in Japan’s drone push but criticised plans to convert idle factories because of the stark differences between car and drone production.
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