Attention shifts between cyber warfare, hypersonic weapons, and cheap drones, but an older threat does not disappear when another attracts the headlines. A peer opponent is expected to combine different weapons if that offers an advantage. Cheap drones and fast cruise missiles could arrive alongside hypersonics in the same attack. The air-defense requirement in this argument is therefore to prepare for several threats at once. Treating each new weapon as a replacement for everything that came before would misread the problem.
Notable Point · 9:42-10:46
Peer air defense must face layered threats
A peer opponent could combine cheap drones, fast cruise missiles, and hypersonic weapons in one attack.