Anduril begins FURY production
Anduril is starting production of the FURY (YFQ‑44A) high‑speed combat drone at a new Ohio facility as the USAF ramps autonomous combat‑air fleets, marking a shift toward mass production of jet‑powered autonomous drones. The move reflects military demand for low‑cost, AI‑enabled force multipliers paired with human pilots. (x.com) (x.com)
Anduril’s Arsenal‑1 campus is being built as a roughly $1 billion, 5‑million‑square‑foot autonomous‑systems manufacturing complex about 20 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. (defensenews.com) Company and local officials project the site will employ more than 4,000 people over the next decade, with an initial onboarding of roughly 250 workers by year’s end and an early cohort of about 25 technical production leads already trained at Anduril’s California headquarters. (defensenews.com) Anduril says it deliberately chose commercial materials and supply‑chain components for the YFQ‑44A — including aluminum airframe choices, composite techniques adapted from recreational boatbuilding, and a commercial business‑jet engine — to speed producibility and lower unit cost. (defensenews.com) The YFQ‑44A moved from clean‑sheet design to flight testing in 556 days and has completed semi‑autonomous flights and software‑modularity trials that let it run different mission autonomy stacks during the same sortie. (anduril.com) Weapons‑integration testing has advanced to captive‑carry evaluations with inert AIM‑120 AMRAAMs as the Air Force proceeds through Increment 1 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft competition alongside General Atomics’ YFQ‑42A. (theaviationist.com) Anduril plans Arsenal‑1 to produce other systems beyond the YFQ‑44A — including its Roadrunner interceptor, Barracuda cruise‑missile family and a classified program — while the company continues smaller production at sites in Mississippi, Rhode Island, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Australia and Southern California. (defensenews.com)
