The media narrative is familiar and seductive. Ukraine has become a battle laboratory for inexpensive, rapidly iterated drones—FPV (first-person-view) strike systems, fiber-optic variants that shrug off jamming, sensor-to-shooter networks, and production tempos measured in the hundreds of thousands per month. American officials praise the innovation, integration, and rapid adaptation. Pentagon programs are already purchasing selected Ukrainian systems or facilitating U.S. production lines. Ukrainian manufacturers have shipped FPV drones to U.S. forces. The obvious question follows: why not simply adopt what works and put it into the hands of American soldiers and Marines under a Full Materiel Release?