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Russian MinPromTorg localisation scoring equates trivial and complex drone parts

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Insider posts from a Russian drone-manufacturer channel document the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s component-localisation point scheme assigning identical scores (200 points each) to landing-gear struts, battery packs, propellers and collision-avoidance modules — treating a metal bracket as equivalent to a sophisticated sub-system. Flight-controller software loading earns five points, the same as the far more expensive test-and-qualification infrastructure required for QA. One anecdote recalls a project abandoned after a ministry official declared domestic content ’not the highlight of the project’ despite the airframe being almost entirely Russian-made. Manufacturers argue the system rewards paper compliance and politically connected suppliers rather than genuine industrial capability-building.

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