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Motherships: The Drone Carrier Goes Operational

The hard part was never launching a drone from something bigger. It is getting it back. In 2027, the Pentagon and its allies start proving which one-way economics can skip recovery entirely — and which "drone carrier" demos are theater dressed as doctrine.

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