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There is a certain logic to the evolution of the Angry Kitten system that cuts to the heart of how effective military innovation actually happens. not in program offices, but at the intersection of operational need, engineering ingenuity, and the willingness to ask an obvious question that no one had thought to ask before. The question was simple: if this pod is good enough to stress our own systems, why not turn it outward? That question has now produced a government-owned offensive electronic attack weapon headed into contested airspace as a tool for suppressing enemy air defenses. The journey from red air trainer to operational jammer is a case study in the kind of adaptive, bottom-up innovation that the U.S. defense establishment talks about far more than it...