A drone operator in Ukraine takes off and is dead within seconds. Not because they were seen. Because the signal between their hands and the aircraft was broadcasting their exact position to anyone listening.

It happens that quickly.

Behind every unmanned system is a person making decisions, often in a dangerous place, trusting that the link between them and the platform holds and does not give them away. An unprotected communications layer breaks both of those promises. Jam it and the platform goes dark. Recover the hardware and the encryption keys come with it, pulling past traffic into the open and putting everyone else at risk.

Lineage was built around what that actually costs. It reconstructs command delivery through jamming, packet loss, and bit corruption. Each key is used once and gone, so a captured platform tells the enemy nothing about the rest of the fleet. No handshakes. No sessions to kill.

The people flying these missions deserve a communications layer designed for the environment they are actually in.