Anduril IndustriesIn Development
Family of low-cost, air-breathing autonomous cruise missiles (Barracuda-100/250/500) designed for mass production with commercial components - Anduril's answer to America's munitions-capacity problem. Variants span air, ground (surface-launched SLB/Barracuda-500M), and pallet-airdrop launch, with the 500-class reaching roughly 900 km. A May 2026 production agreement with the Department of War covers at least 3,000 surface-launched Barracuda-500M systems over three years (~1,000/year, first deliveries H1 2027), a July 2026 framework agreement targets thousands of air-launched Barracuda-500s per year, Poland's PGZ will build the surface-launched Barracuda-500M locally, and an Embraer MoU is integrating a palletized Barracuda-500M on the C-390 transport.
Latest update Aug 11, 2026
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In flight testing; DoW production agreement signed May 13, 2026 for the surface-launched Barracuda-500M; Poland (PGZ/WZL-2) signed on July 6, 2026 to build it locally as the first European production site; Embraer signed a July 21, 2026 MoU to launch it from the C-390; production at Arsenal-1 in Ohio is slated to begin by end of 2026
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Announced next steps from Anduril Industries that mention Barracuda.
Fall 2026
Anduril is one of three Family of Affordable Mass Missiles primes, with CoAspire and Zone 5, under July 2026 Department of War framework agreements covering pallet-launched and lug-launched Barracuda-500 variants. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said on September 14, 2026 that FAMM production is expected to begin this fall, with tens of thousands of the low-cost cruise missiles in inventory by 2030; fiscal 2027 budget documents count nearly 28,000 buys over five years. Anduril has said FAMM Barracuda-500 deliveries begin in 2027 after lug-launched ground and flight tests.
Q4 2026
Fury production started in March 2026, and as of September 17, 2026 Anduril is standing up an ALTIUS 600 line at Arsenal-1 in Ashville while Atlanta ALTIUS production continues. Roadrunner, Barracuda, and an unannounced classified platform are still slated to join by the end of 2026, with new technical teams deploying for Barracuda as a winter 2026 line. Whether the promised automotive-style production rates materialize is the key test of Anduril's manufacturing thesis.
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At MSPO Kielce on September 9, 2026 Anduril pitched Fury as a loyal wingman for Poland's F-35s and Thunder as a force multiplier for the 96 AH-64E Apaches due from 2028, which would make Poland the first European user of either aircraft. Talks with the Ministry of National Defence were ongoing and no aircraft contract had been announced as of September 10, 2026.
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Anduril said its Barracuda-M cruise-missile family is the first weapon in large-scale production to complete independent U.S. Air Force Weapon Open Systems Architecture verification. The Air Force Research Laboratory's MOATEL lab ran a four-day assessment covering 14 domains, including mission autonomy, seeker, propulsion, guidance, navigation, and the Munitions Data Bus. Production is underway, with first customer deliveries expected in early 2027 and annual output planned in the thousands.
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey told reporters in Taipei on September 19 that President Trump's delay in approving a $14 billion Taiwan arms package is affecting the company's business, saying Taiwan work would be in a different place if the package were moving and that the stall also blocks progress in other areas. Luckey, who attended a defense forum with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, said he has discussed the issue with Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but declined to name which Anduril programs sit inside the package. China sanctioned Luckey in December 2025 for selling weapons to Taiwan; Anduril's Altius drone is already used there, and Taiwan last year unveiled a jointly made Barracuda-500 missile.
Anduril is expanding ALTIUS 600 autonomous-aircraft production to its Arsenal-1 factory in Ashville, Ohio, adding the tube-launched drone to a lineup that already includes Fury, Roadrunner and Barracuda. Existing ALTIUS production continues in Atlanta, and the company has started hiring a launch team in Pickaway County. Vice president of production Kevin Kerr said the extra Ohio line is meant to meet rising demand for the ISR, strike and electronic-warfare system.
Anduril's strategic partnership with German defense giant Rheinmetall has been significantly scaled back about a year after it was announced, a setback to the US company's push to broaden work with major European contractors, Bloomberg reported. The suspended elements include jointly developing European-tailored versions of Anduril's Barracuda cruise missile and Fury combat aircraft, integrating Anduril systems into Rheinmetall's Battlesuite platform, and exploring solid-rocket-motor manufacturing for the European market. The pullback comes as Anduril scales US production at its Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio and as European governments weigh how much to rely on American defense-tech suppliers.
Anduril Industries and the U.S. Department of War signed a framework agreement on July 15 to scale production of the air-launched Barracuda-500, a low-cost, software-defined stand-off strike munition. The two-phase deal is intended to lead to procurement of thousands of the missiles per year over roughly seven years, with initial deliveries beginning in 2027. Barracuda production is expected to shift to Arsenal-1, Anduril's roughly $1 billion, 5-million-square-foot factory in Pickaway County, Ohio, later this year.
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AI-powered command-and-control software platform that fuses data from thousands of sensors and autonomous systems into a single operational picture, letting small teams direct large fleets of machines. Lattice underpins nearly every Anduril product and is increasingly sold as infrastructure in its own right - it is the software backbone of the Army's SBMC soldier systems and the tactical C2 layer for national counter-drone defense.
Jet-powered, semi-autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft designed to fly as a robotic wingman alongside F-35s, F-22s, and the F-47. Fury flew 556 days after clean-sheet design start and in June 2026 was ordered into production by the Air Force - the first combat jet produced by a defense startup. Anduril executives said on September 14, 2026 that the unit cost is well below $20 million at currently contemplated quantities, beating the earlier ~$30M (about a third of an F-35) target, and that a Fury has already flown in formation alongside F-35s, though the fighter is not yet controlling it.
Twin-turbojet, vertical take-off-and-landing autonomous interceptor that flies at high subsonic speed to defeat drones and cruise-missile-class threats. The Roadrunner-M variant carries a high-explosive warhead but can land and be reused at near-zero cost if a kill isn't needed - an economics-first answer to the drone threat.
Autonomous, series hybrid-electric tilt-rotor Group 5 attack aircraft co-developed with Archer Aviation and unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 20, 2026. Designed as a pilotless 'loyal wingman' to fly in formation with crewed helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and MV-75, cruising above 200 knots with a range of thousands of nautical miles. Archer's commercial variant of the same airframe is called 'Halo.'
Extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle co-developed with the Royal Australian Navy for stealthy, long-range intelligence, surveillance, and strike missions; its commercial baseline is the Dive-XL. After delivering three prototypes ahead of schedule, Anduril won a A$1.7B program of record in September 2025, opened a purpose-built Sydney factory, and delivered the first production boat in November 2025.
A new class of autonomous surface vessel co-developed with South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, combining HD Hyundai's shipbuilding scale with Anduril's software-defined autonomy and mission-systems integration. Originally aimed at the Navy's Modular Attack Surface Craft program, which the Navy cancelled in March 2026 in favor of a new Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel 'marketplace' that did not include Anduril in its initial seven-company demonstration cohort; Anduril and HD Hyundai are building the vessel independently.
A family of modular two-stage surface-to-air interceptors with a common terminal-stage airframe, avionics and flight controls and a first-stage booster configurable for range, performance and launchers including PAC-3, CAML, Typhoon and containerized canisters. Anduril pitches it against cruise, ballistic and hypersonic threats and as a lower-cost alternative to PAC-3 MSE. Ballistic tests with representative air vehicles are complete; flight tests are planned in 2027. No production contract has been disclosed.
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SpaceX
Partially reusable two-stage medium-lift launch vehicle. The world's most frequently launched orbital rocket.
SpaceX
Heavy-lift launch vehicle consisting of a strengthened Falcon 9 core with two additional boosters.
SpaceX
Reusable spacecraft for cargo and crew transport to the International Space Station.
SpaceX
Fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch system designed for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. V3 (Block 3) variant with Raptor 3 engines is the production version.