Anduril Barracuda
Anduril's Barracuda is a family of low-cost, turbojet-powered autonomous cruise missiles — Barracuda-100, -250 and -500 — built for mass production, with a Pentagon order for at least 3,000 rounds and co-production lines planned in Poland and Taiwan.
Barracuda is Anduril's autonomous air-vehicle and cruise-missile family, with Barracuda-100M, -250M and -500M munition variants listed on Anduril's product page.
Overview
Anduril lists three Barracuda munition variants: Barracuda-100M, Barracuda-250M and Barracuda-500M, with advertised ranges exceeding 120, 200 and 500 nautical miles respectively. Designation-Systems.net records AGM-189A as the US Air Force designation allocated to Barracuda-500M in September 2025.
The Department of War established a May 2026 surface-launched missile framework leading through a Military Utility Assessment to future production contracts. Anduril states that its SLB-500M framework covers at least 3,000 missiles over three years, at least 1,000 annually, with the first tranche scheduled for the first half of 2027. The Department of War added conditional air-launched frameworks in July 2026, while Poland's Ministry of State Assets confirmed a separate agreement for planned SLB-500M assembly and production at WZL-2 in Bydgoszcz.
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