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Developing better hard-kill low-cost capability for drone defense is essential, but the US Pentagon is far from achieving this, and because these lessons are not being learned, the next foe that figures out how to exploit US drone vulnerabilities will teach it painfully.

Directly authorizing a U.S. kinetic strike on a Russian vessel would be fundamentally different and more escalatory than authorizing Ukraine to conduct long-range strikes, making U.S. direct involvement unlikely during the Biden administration.