If the airframe hits a $2,000 ceiling, value doesn't disappear — it moves to the layers every drone needs. Teledyne sits in the sensor layer, selling to "everyone else across the world that's making drones" regardless of airframe winner, though drones are a fraction of revenue and sensors face volume price pressure. Amprius targets the endurance bottleneck with silicon-anode batteries, yet burns cash and leans on policy mandates as much as physics. The pattern holds: arm every side of a commodity war and the war pays you.