One question that I have. What is preventing China from also producing Cheap Autonomous "replicators"? What exactly is the magic sauce that the US has that they can produce thousands of cheap autonomous weapons but China cannot.
Is this supposed AI edge? Not in the military realm. Is this semiconductors gap? If its so cheap to produce, it should have fairly cheap and low tech chip inside it and China should also be able to make it with their "low" tech.