Yeah but it's cheap and doesn't need putting pilots up there. The:

>When a Russian recon drone enters the zone, the system vectors an interceptor to chase it down and destroy it, without requiring a human operator to manually fly the engagement.

thing didn't happen much in WW1.

Yeah - in WWI, autonomous weapons were mostly mines (land or naval).

OTOH, fire-and-forget missiles have been around for half a century or so.

Bigger picture: Yes, obviously this is a good idea. My take is that it should be graded purely on how well they've implemented it - with no hype, and 0 extra credit points for "innovation".