Australia Arms Anduril's Ghost Shark With 12 Sea Mines and Altius Drone Swarms
Canberra declassified payloads that take its autonomous submarine from surveillance into mining and strike, and is offering them to the US and UK under AUKUS.
A Sequoia-led seed round values a company with no dogs yet at $1.2 billion, betting that cloned, gene-edited working dogs wired into Anduril's kit can replace the Pentagon's European supply.
Canberra declassified payloads that take its autonomous submarine from surveillance into mining and strike, and is offering them to the US and UK under AUKUS.
The Fury's onboard autonomy carried out a Raptor pilot's orders, the first in-flight test of the command link the Air Force's drone-wingman plan depends on.
The shipbuilder-plus-software team put its uncrewed vessel autonomy in front of US Navy observers as Anduril chases the Navy's medium USV program with commercial yards.
Lockheed showed a Patriot successor due in 2031 on the day Poland said its own PAC-3 deliveries will slip. Ukraine's ballistic defense this winter rests on missiles allies already hold.
Anduril's two-stage missile design is built to push interceptor output into the thousands and cut the cost of each engagement, with flight tests set for 2027.
The company-funded YFQ-48A cut parts and weight to get Northrop back into an Air Force drone-wingman plan that already has two airframes in production.
An outcome-paid Navy contract moves a drone and software company into the Virginia-class supply chain, but the Maryland yard does not open until 2030.
The Army awarded Anduril a five-year contract worth up to $1.8 billion to field NGC2's common data layer, starting with I Corps, the company said Oct. 5.
Origin Robotics and Anduril will test the BLAZE drone interceptor on Anduril's Lattice software in Latvia. The work is self-funded, and no date is set. Latvia already buys BLAZE under a multi-year framework.
Fury and Vengeance have moved from company demonstrations to Air Force operator-led testing, while both manufacturers build production jets ahead of new federal funding.
At least 20 counter-drone vendors at NORTHCOM's border-focused Falcon Peak 26.2 had to feed their tracks into Anduril's Lattice, including interceptors Ukraine already flies against Russian drones.
ALTIUS-600M and 700M are Anduril one-way attack drones, with 600M delivered to Taiwan and both models contracted for Ukraine.
The AUKUS trial moved undersea autonomy into weapons carriage, but it proved the interfaces rather than an operational strike capability.
Anduril Dive-LD is a US large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-endurance undersea surveillance, mine countermeasures, seabed mapping and modular payload delivery.
Boeing brings the seeker and the airframe. Anduril brings the solid rocket motor, from a Mississippi plant it built because US motor supply had narrowed to two vendors.
Hermeus picked Anduril's Lattice to fly its Mach 3 Quarterhorse, the first time Anduril has put its mission autonomy on a large third-party airframe under a commercial deal.
Anduril Omen is a runway-independent Group 3 autonomous aircraft co-developed with EDGE Group, combining vertical launch and recovery with wing-borne cruise and a hybrid-electric powertrain.
Alpha trades a helmet display for a simpler interface, but must deliver useful decisions with little or no connectivity.
The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.
Lyntris priced below range, cut its IPO by seven million shares and fell 11.4% on debut. Public investors now want GAAP profit, lower leverage and core growth from defense tech, while private capital still entertains an Anduril valuation near $100 billion.
Ukrainian operators dismantled a US armored brigade in a German exercise. The Army's FY2027 answer shifts drone selection toward soldiers and tests whether industry can keep pace.
Archer Aviation is acquiring Boeing's Insitu, Wisk Aero and SkyGrid for equity rather than cash, picking up a Group 3 drone maker with $200 million in revenue and customers in 35 countries.
The digital-asset bank is growing on equipment finance and venture debt for defense manufacturers, and its charter is under Senate investigation.
Tokyo is prioritizing speed and U.S. interoperability while European governments pay a sovereignty premium for domestic command software.
Kaizen Laboratories controls the software layer that shapes which counter-drone systems U.S. troops and allies see, compare and move toward purchase.
A paper published by NATO's own Command and Control Centre of Excellence names Alliance consensus as Russia's real Baltic target, then proposes a new assessment unit. NATO's procurement agency contracted that capability five months ago.
Reuters says investors are weighing a two-stage deal that would price the nine-year-old drone maker near Lockheed Martin's market value, a day after Bloomberg reported its Rheinmetall partnership shrank.
Anduril and Archer unveiled Thunder, an autonomous tiltrotor built to fly beside Apaches after lessons from Ukraine made attack helicopters some of the most exposed platforms on the battlefield.
The first live missile shot from a US robotic wingman came ten months after first flight and ran on Anduril's own Lattice software, in the middle of a three-way autonomy contest the Air Force decides by summer 2027.
NATO is testing the $61 billion startup's AI software as the data backbone for air operations across 32 nations, with one of three platforms winning long-term implementation.
The Kraken K3 Scout is a UK-built 8.4-metre high-speed uncrewed surface vessel — 55 knots, 600 kg modular payload — fielded by the Royal Navy under Project Beehive and the first drone boat ever airdropped from a transport aircraft.
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.
The July 6 agreement makes Poland the first European producer of Anduril's mass-production cruise missile, with thousands of rounds planned and a route to EU-funded sales under the SAFE scheme.
On July 2, Airbus co-led Quantum Systems' $1.2B round and became Brave1's first Western partner. Europe's old primes are buying the defense-tech boom, not fighting it.
Amazon Web Services named Anduril its preferred edge provider and packed AWS Outposts into Anduril's Menace-I data center, pushing cloud compute to the contested front.
The US autonomy maker wants to build military drones in a shuttered Nissan plant near a major US-Japan naval base, as Tokyo rearms against a Taiwan crisis.
The Air Force put its Collaborative Combat Aircraft into production four months early, handing a defense-tech challenger a marquee program that Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman bid for and lost.
Venture funding for defense-tech startups hit $14.6 billion in five months of 2026, beating all of last year, with Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic taking most of it.
Anduril's CEO is pressing Washington to let allies build US weapons, not just buy them. The same week, the Pentagon walled 65 more Chinese firms out of its defense base. The drone war's real front is now the control list.
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.
A stealthy, modular extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle co-developed by Anduril and the Royal Australian Navy — designed for persistent ISR, strike, and payload delivery from shore or warships.
The YFQ-44A Fury is America's jet-powered semi-autonomous fighter drone — a collaborative combat aircraft designed to team with crewed fighters, carry air-to-air missiles, and provide affordable mass for the US Air Force's next-generation airpower.
A reusable, jet-powered vertical-takeoff interceptor built to hunt drones at an order-of-magnitude lower cost than legacy missiles — and land again if the threat evaporates.
The State Department's $1.98 billion approval puts Anduril's electronic and kinetic drone defenses in the Gulf days after an Iranian drone hit Kuwait's main airport.
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
The Pentagon's Crucible 2 turns a $54.6 billion autonomy budget line into a contracted shoot-off, and the 25-firm roster shows who the Pentagon is betting on to fly the swarms.
Defense-tech venture funding hit a record $14.6 billion in the first five months of 2026, per Crunchbase. The companies drawing the biggest checks build what Ukraine's front increasingly runs on: cheap, mass-produced autonomy.
Elbit America has pulled Anduril onto its SIGMA bid for the U.S. Army's self-propelled howitzer contest, a sign the program could turn on autonomy and networking as much as on the cannon.