America already has a number of domestic manufacturers that don’t rely on foreign supply chains.

https://www.thedronegirl.com/2020/06/23/american-drone-compa...

A self replicating supply chain is obviously the basis for success and scalability of the ‘replicator program’.

they're not cheap because the US has to rely on the free market hegemony that it created and sits on top of.

If WW3 breaks out and we're hitting total war with levee en masse those prices will come down right quick...