By. Theodore Pellicano DOI. 10.57912/31449580 In the 1990s, Air Force Chief of Staff John Jumper referred to a sub-30-minute kill chain (the process required to identify and neutralize a target) as “lucky” . In Ukraine, however, it takes only three minutes  for an infantry squad to call in a strike to destroy a Russian T-72 using a first-person view (FPV) assault drone. The unprecedented speed of this engagement is forcing analysts to rethink how the tank will be used in a near-peer conflict...