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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.
Latest update Sep 15, 2026
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First flight October 31, 2025; production began at Arsenal-1 in March 2026; EMD/production contract awarded June 17, 2026; officially named FQ-44A Fury on September 14, 2026; first CCA permanently delivered to the Air Force EOU, which is flying it multiple times a day; production aircraft expected off the line in early 2027
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Announced next steps from Anduril Industries that mention Fury (FQ-44A).
Late 2026
Anduril executives said on September 14, 2026 that a YFQ-44A Fury has already flown in formation alongside F-35s, but the fighter is not yet controlling the drone. Work on 'quarterback integration' - a crewed aircraft directing and employing the autonomous jet - has been run in hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop environments and on Fury itself, with live flying events expected in weeks or months. That demonstration is the next operational test of the CCA concept after the Air Force took over day-to-day Fury flying at Creech.
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.
Dec 11, 2026
TargetBy December 11, 2026 CR expiry, or a later FY2027 appropriations act
Early 2027
TargetEarly 2027 (contingent on FY2027 appropriations)
Anduril said on September 14, 2026 that it cannot begin work on the June 2026 Fury production contract until Congress appropriates fiscal 2027 money, which is not expected before December 11 at the earliest under the current continuing resolution. The company has self-funded its production facility and long-lead purchases and says it will not need a cold start, so the test is whether production aircraft still come off Arsenal-1 in early 2027 as planned, whether a funding anomaly lets work begin sooner, and how close orders get to the line's stated 150-aircraft annual capacity.
Mid-2027
Alongside the June 2026 production award, the Air Force gave Anduril, Shield AI, and Collins Aerospace six-month mission-autonomy contract line items to advance their respective autonomy stacks (Anduril's Lattice for Mission Autonomy, Shield AI's Hivemind, Collins' Sidekick) toward the CCA's initial operating capability criteria; after that six months the Air Force plans to down-select further toward one or two vendors for a second six-month option, with a single autonomy provider and IOC targeted for summer 2027. The Fury's first live AMRAAM shot on July 10, 2026 and September 14, 2026 disclosure of F-35 formation flying de-risk the airframe side of that bid; winning the software layer as well would make Anduril the program's dominant player. As of September 15, 2026 the summer 2027 down-select still stood.
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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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The Air Force said on Oct. 16 that an F-22 pilot directed a single YFQ-44A in flight earlier this month, with the drone's autonomy software flying dynamic maneuvers and simulated combat tasks. Anduril vice president Mark Shushnar told Air and Space Forces the Fury and the F-22 launched from Edwards during the week of Oct. 5, joined in the air, and that the pilot sent an updated mission plan over a tactical data link. The Air Force release does not give the day or the base.
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 told reporters at the Air, Space and Cyber conference that it cannot start work on its FQ-44 Fury production contract until Congress passes fiscal 2027 appropriations, which are not expected before December. Vice president for strategy execution Erin Simpson said the company has invested its own money in a new production facility and bought long-lead items but can only go so far without procurement dollars, and floated a funding anomaly in any future stopgap as a way to begin early. Engineering senior vice president Jason Levin said Arsenal-1 outside Columbus, Ohio can build up to 150 Fury aircraft a year, more than current Air Force orders, and that YFQ-44 prototypes are being assembled there now.
Anduril executives told The War Zone at the AFA conference on September 14 that a YFQ-44A Fury already flew in formation alongside F-35s during the July Experimental Operations Unit exercise at Creech Air Force Base, though the fighter was not yet controlling the drone. The company also said it had permanently delivered a Fury to the EOU, the first CCA handed over to the unit, which is now flying it multiple times a day. Production aircraft are expected off the Arsenal-1 line in early 2027 at a unit cost Anduril said is well below $20 million at currently contemplated quantities.
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink formally named the service's first Collaborative Combat Aircraft on September 14: General Atomics' FQ-42A Vengeance and Anduril's FQ-44A Fury. Speaking at the AFA Air, Space and Cyber Conference, he said the Air Force intends to have at least 500 CCAs in service by 2032, up from the prior goal of more than 150 by the end of the decade. Both Increment 1 jets are already in production after first flights in August and October 2025.
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Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft completed a second exercise with the Air Force's Experimental Operations Unit at Creech Air Force Base on August 19, 2026, flying multiple daily sorties over a week. For the first time, Air Force operators rather than Anduril staff directly supervised and tasked the autonomous jet from multiple locations, testing the disaggregated control the service needs to generate sorties from austere bases ahead of planned operational fielding.
Anduril unveiled the first FQ-44A Fury completed at its Arsenal-1 factory in Pickaway County, Ohio on July 27, just 18 months after breaking ground on the site. The company has committed $910.5 million in capital investment and 4,008 production and service jobs by 2035, the largest single job-creation commitment in Ohio history, with the line targeting up to 150 Fury aircraft a year at full three-shift capacity.
Defense-technology company Anduril is in talks with investors about a new funding round that could value it at roughly $100 billion, more than triple its mark of a year earlier and up from the $61 billion valuation set in its $5 billion Series H in May 2026, Reuters reported on July 24. One proposal under consideration is a two-stage structure in which investors would commit to a second round at a higher valuation within a year, contingent on Anduril meeting certain financial targets. A $100 billion valuation would put the maker of the Fury combat aircraft and Lattice command-and-control software nearly on par with Lockheed Martin; Anduril said no final decisions have been made.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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Partially reusable two-stage medium-lift launch vehicle. The world's most frequently launched orbital rocket.
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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.
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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.