You can just do both. The US does have some cheaper, more expendable drone platforms, and it's continuing to work on more. It should probably scale up production of them, though.
You don't scale up today - you just make sure you can. Otherwise next year you have a ton of obsolete drones to scrap.
You don't scale up today - you just make sure you can. Otherwise next year you have a ton of obsolete drones to scrap.