I told the @nytimes that what we have been seeing in Ukraine is drone warfare bleeding into the missile regime. E.g., jet-powered Banderols are effectively cheap cruise missiles, slipping outside the envelope of some -- though not all -- of the propeller-driven interceptors Ukraine built its air defense around. That has, at least for now, pushed Kyiv back toward scarcer and more expensive missiles to bring some of them down, even as cheaper counters are being developed. The future appears to be mixed attack packages, with slower propeller and rotor drones still doing the essential work of saturating and exhausting air defenses while smaller number of high-speed jets punch through. Both sides are now locked in a classic adaptation cycle in unmanned warfare: every interceptor breakthrough invites a countermeasure in the form of a 'better' attack drone, and the side that wins is the one that can keep quality high while keeping the unit affordable enough to field at scale. nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world…