Pentagon reveals preferred munitions for one-way attack drones

- Pentagon’s Lethality Prize just crowned the kings of cheap, modular death. Northrop Grumman’s “Common UAS Payload” promises zero redesigns—pure API elegance for warheads. But the real alpha? Startups like Bravo Ordnance, spinning custom munitions in under two weeks, and Kela Technologies, leveraging Silicon Valley scale to bolt software onto steel. This isn’t just hardware; it’s the industrialization of autonomous lethality. We’re talking mass-producible, ESAD-compatible payloads that turn any commercial drone into a guided missile. The goal? Slash drone costs from $5k to $2.3k by 2028. It’s not warfare; it’s scalable engineering. The future of defense is open-source compatible and terrifyingly efficient.