The Black Sea case is a warning and a template. A relatively small nation with problem-sets that favor asymmetric approaches has leveraged robotization, modular ordnance and networked targeting to blunt a numerically and conventionally superior maritime force. That same package is portable in concept to other crowded seas and to actors that can combine sensors, local sea platforms and permissive coastal basing. If navies and policymakers treat the phenomenon as an ephemeral curiosity they will be surprised when the next theater where geography favors small craft becomes the proving ground for the same playbook.