The Pentagon’s next breakthrough won’t simply be a missile that flies farther or a warhead that hits harder. It will be a weapon that adapts in flight, shares data seamlessly across the kill chain, scales affordably and earns enough trust to deploy without a human asset beside it. From the Air Force’s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles to the Pentagon’s push to field 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles within three years, the military is racing to i…