At a major defense exhibition in Kielce, Poland, in September 2026, Australian firm Electro Optic Systems presented a quiet but consequential argument: that the age of the drone has outpaced the age of the jammer, and that light itself may be the only answer fast enough to matter. Their Apollo laser system — capable of destroying a drone in under 1.5 seconds at a cost of less than a dime per shot — represents not merely a new weapon, but a philosophical shift in how nations might defend their skies against threats that no longer need a human hand to guide them.