Also, I should note that while they currently depend on Western-branded components made in Taiwan (to get lots of processing power), the same can be done (if you find a good enough coder) with far less operations per second… in which case they have supply from the PRC. Fortunately this hasn’t happened yet.

“Monochrome” seems somewhat of a hybrid between a cruise missile and a killer robot. It’s a cruise missile which evaluates things it sees, and decides which target is worth attacking. What instructions it gets before launch, hasn’t been disclosed so far, but everything suggests those are fairly abstract instructions.