Ukrainian operators lose the radio link before impact and the strike lands anyway. Over Edwards Air Force Base, an AI agent flew 27 intercepts on a passive infrared feed. Both ends of the price curve are solving the same problem.
The Perennial Hornet is a ~$5,000 AI-guided one-way strike drone from Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy — an optically navigated fixed-wing aircraft Ukrainian units use to burn Russian supply trucks 50-150 km behind the front, the workhorse of Kyiv's "logistics lockdown" campaign.
A southern-border test validated CACI's net-and-jam system for the entire US military, the latest move in a counter-drone scramble shaped by the drone war in Ukraine and by hostile drones now killing American troops.
A $5,000 drone from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy is letting Ukraine burn Russian supply trucks deep behind the front.