Anduril Bolt-M
Anduril's man-portable VTOL loitering munition — AI-guided, returnable if no strike, and the U.S. Marine Corps' first squad-level autonomous organic precision fires system, ordered under the $249M OPF-L program.
Anduril supplies Bolt-M for the Marine Corps' Organic Precision Fires-Light program; the U.S. Marine Corps documents BLT 1/8 live-fire employment at Camp Lejeune on 28 August 2026.
Overview
The Bolt-M is a battery-powered quadcopter loitering munition developed by Anduril Industries that fuses machine-vision autonomous guidance with a modular, operator-swappable warhead architecture. Unlike improvised first-person-view (FPV) strike drones, Bolt-M flies, tracks, and engages targets under AI supervision, requiring the operator only to authorize four simplified decisions — where to look, what to follow, how to engage, and when to strike. If no lawful target is confirmed, the vehicle can be recalled and stowed for reuse. Built from the ground up for producibility, Bolt-M occupies a deliberate cost band between expendable commercial FPV drones and high-end anti-armor loitering munitions, positioning it as an "affordable attritable" for the squad fight.
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