Drones, like any other aircraft, would be used only after air superiority has been established. That means that by the time we're sending drones in, the enemy

Drones, like any other aircraft, would be used only after air superiority has been established. That means that by the time we're sending drones in, the enemy doesn't even have sufficient radar capabilities to know what planes are there. Radar sites are one of the first targets in the process of establishing air superiority because they direct anti-aircraft defenses. They wouldn't even know there are drones to hack, just that missiles are raining down from above. If we haven't established air superiority yet, we just use cruise missiles. But a cruise missile looks a lot like a missile fired from a drone if you're standing on the ground.