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Anduril Industries

American defense-technology company (Costa Mesa, founded 2017 by [Palmer Luckey](/people/palmer-luckey), [Brian Schimpf](/people/brian-schimpf), and others)…

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Founded
2017
HQ
Costa Mesa, California, USA
Status
private

Appears inMilitary & defense drones

Models

7

Overview

American defense-technology company (Costa Mesa, founded 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, and others) building autonomous air, ground, and maritime systems unified by its Lattice software platform. Raised a $2.5B Series G at a $30.5B valuation (June 2025); a further round in 2026 was reported at a higher valuation. Building the Arsenal-1 hyperscale manufacturing plant in Ohio.

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Key facts

Founded

2017, Costa Mesa, California, by Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joseph Chen

Valuation

$2.5B Series G at $30.5B (June 2025); a further ~$60B-valuation round was reported in 2026 (figures not uniformly settled)

Manufacturing

Arsenal-1 hyperscale plant, Pickaway County, Ohio (~$1B)

Software

Lattice AI command-and-control and mission-autonomy platform

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Press releases

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News coverage

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Web sources

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Models (7)

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Current platform

Barracuda

Anduril's Barracuda is a family of low-cost, air-breathing Autonomous Air Vehicles (cruise-missile class) built for hyperscale production and mass employment; the -100, -250, and -500 variants offer increasing range (the -500 exceeds ~500 nautical miles) and multi-platform compatibility.

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Current platform

Ghost Shark (XL-AUV)

Ghost Shark is Anduril Industries' extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle, co-developed with the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Group, recorded in the registry as a new subsea model under the existing Anduril company and wired to the Lattice autonomy brain, leveraging Dive-LD technology with Dive-XL as its commercial baseline. The registry records it at production maturity, the strongest gating signal in the maritime set: a May 2022 co-development contract for three prototypes led to three Royal Australian Navy prototypes, the first revealed in April 2024, plus one for the US Navy, all delivered on budget and ahead of schedule, followed by an A$1.7 billion production contract announced around September 10, 2025 for dozens of vehicles over five years, with the first production hull coming off the Sydney production line in November 2025 ahead of schedule and entering sea-acceptance testing. A contract correction is important: the originating dispatch's A$140 million figure was the 2022 co-development contract, not the production contract, and the two should not be merged, the production contract being A$1.7 billion. It is production maturity but pre-full-rate, not yet operationally fielded with the Royal Australian Navy, since the planned January 2026 operational delivery is forward-dated. The exact production quantity, full-rate production in 2026, the operational handoff, and all hull specifications, which are estimated because the Australian Defence Department withholds the design, are not verified.

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Current platform

Dive-LD

Dive-LD is Anduril Industries' large-diameter autonomous undersea vehicle, originating from its 2022 acquisition of Dive Technologies, recorded in the registry as a new subsea model under the existing Anduril company and wired to the Lattice autonomy brain. It is rated to a depth of 6,000 meters with about ten days of endurance and modular payloads for missions spanning intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, and seafloor mapping. The registry records it at commercial maturity reflecting a fielded, early-operational status: the first Dive-LD was delivered to the US Navy's Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1 in 2025, a real handoff to a named operational Navy unit that clears the gating bar, though the quantity is single or low rather than mass production, placing it above Ghost Shark on US fielding but below it on production-contract scale. A specification correction is worth recording: the frequently cited 5.8-meter figure is the hull length, conflated in some sources with depth, while the actual depth rating is 6,000 meters. The quantity beyond the first unit, the dollar value of the Navy delivery, the operational status of Copperhead deployment from Dive vehicles, and the exact 2022 Dive Technologies acquisition date are not verified here.

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Current platform

Ghost (Ghost-X)

Ghost is Anduril Industries' helicopter-style single-rotor autonomous VTOL small uncrewed aircraft for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, with the current Ghost-X variant redesigned on Ukrainian combat feedback from the Ghost 4 lineage launched in September 2020. It carries roughly a 20-to-25-pound payload over about 75 to 90 minutes and 25 kilometers, runs Anduril's Lattice autonomy software, and sits on the Defense Innovation Unit's China-free Blue UAS list. Its verified gating events are strong: in September 2024 it was selected for the US Army's Company-Level small-UAS Directed Requirement Tranche 1 alongside Performance Drone Works' C-100, under a $14.417 million ten-year indefinite-delivery contract, and it was chosen via the Army's Medium Range Reconnaissance program under Replicator for rapid fielding to Brigade Combat Teams, with thirteen Army units logging more than 1,200 unit-hours over the prior year and combat use in Ukraine since 2022, backed by a $1 billion Ohio manufacturing facility announced in January 2025. On AI substance the Lattice stack delivers genuine fielded onboard autonomy, including radio-silent flight, single-operator multi-drone teaming, and automatic mission hand-off on low battery, and Ghost is wired in the registry to the existing Lattice brain; note that Hivemind is Shield AI's autonomy stack, not Anduril's, so Ghost is not wired to it. Counter-evidence is kept rather than suppressed: a Ghost-X crashed in uncontrolled flight during January 2025 training in Germany and Bloomberg reported broader Anduril drone-crash setbacks in late 2025, real reliability friction that Anduril says it diagnosed and fixed. A reported roughly $17 million April 2026 contract, a 300-percent-effectiveness claim, and precise total fielded counts are recorded as claimed but not verified.

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Current platform

Anduril Fury (YFQ-44A)

Autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) designated YFQ-44A; began flight testing in late 2025. Flew with mission-autonomy software from both Anduril (Lattice) and Shield AI (Hivemind). Not yet in series production.

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Current platform

Anduril Bolt

Man-packable autonomous quadrotor; the Bolt-M variant is a loitering munition selected for the US Marine Corps Organic Precision Fires - Light (OPF-L) program (600+ units).

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Current platform

Anduril Roadrunner

Reusable, twin-jet, vertical-takeoff autonomous air vehicle; the Roadrunner-M variant is a counter-UAS interceptor that can return and land if not expended. Unveiled Dec 2023; in large-scale production.

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Relationships

UUS Air ForceCustomerGGeneral Atomics Aeronautical SystemsTechnology partnerUU.S. Air ForceCustomerUU.S. NavyCustomerUUS Department of DefenseCustomerTThrive CapitalInvestorAAndreessen Horowitz (a16z)InvestorFFounders FundInvestorSSands CapitalInvestorVValor Equity PartnersInvestor

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Anduril Industries, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (4 of 4 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-06-01
    “Anduril Spent $900M on This AI Fighter Jet. The FQ-44 Fury is the US Air Force's first autonomous fighter jet”

    Fury (YFQ-44A) is an autonomous AI-powered combat drone designed as a "loyal wingman" for human pilots. Air Force CCA production contract confirmed. $900M development spend. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/air-force-picks-anduril-general-atomics-to-build-first-operational-cca-drones/

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  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-05-13
    “Anduril Announces $5B Series H Raise”

    $5B Series H at $61B valuation, led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Confirmed on Anduril website. Largest defense tech funding round. https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-announces-usd5b-series-h-raise

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  • VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2026-01-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “Anduril Industries will begin building its new FURY high-speed combat drones”

    Anduril won the Air Force CCA (Collaborative Combat Aircraft) production contract with General Atomics. Fury (YFQ-44A) production at Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio ($1B). Air Force selected Anduril/GA for first operational CCA drones. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/air-force-picks-anduril-general-atomics-to-build-first-operational-cca-drones/

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  • VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2026-01-01
    “U.S. Army awards Anduril $16.8M contract for Ghost-X drones”

    $16.8M US Army contract for Ghost-X drones confirmed. Anduril is supplying multiple drone platforms to the US military.

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Anduril Industries, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

  • What is an autonomous drone?

    An autonomous drone is an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) whose flight is directed by onboard AI + autonomy stack rather than continuous human remote-piloting. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort splits across three classes with distinct verification anchors: new-defense (Anduril Roadrunner/Fury/Ghost/Bolt + Helsing HX-2/HF-1 + Shield AI V-BAT + Quantum Systems + Neros); legacy-prime (General Atomics MQ-9 lifecycle); commercial-civilian (Skydio + Zipline + Wing + Matternet + Brinc + Wingcopter + XAG + Percepto + Flytrex). Gating events split by class: BVLOS regulatory clearance for commercial; DoD contracts + fielded systems for defense. Editorial discipline: remotely-piloted-vs-autonomous honesty matters; MQ-9 + TB2 + Neros Archer are recorded as remotely-piloted, not autonomous. The framework resists 'drone = AI' inflation.

  • What is Anduril?

    Anduril is the canonical Western new-defense AI-first drone + defense systems company, founded 2017 by Palmer Luckey + Trae Stephens + others. Anduril operates a multi-product autonomy + drone family: Roadrunner (interceptor); Fury (collaborative combat aircraft pilot); Ghost (production-tier with Lattice brain wiring confirmed); Bolt (loitering munition). Verified gating events per Agent A foundational ingest: $14.4M Army PBAS IDIQ + Replicator fielding. Anduril's Lattice autonomy stack is the substantive verified autonomy substrate that distinguishes Anduril from 'AI drone' marketing claims industry-wide. Anduril Ghost crash record is honestly cap-flagged per Agent A ingest discipline rather than suppressed.

  • What is a maritime robot?

    A maritime robot is an autonomous uncrewed vehicle (USV surface + AUV/UUV subsea) operating in the maritime regulatory regime for ocean data collection + commercial + defense operations. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort enumerates as: surface×commercial (Saildrone fleet) + surface×defense (Saronic Corsair/Mirage/Marauder) + subsea×defense triad (Anduril Dive-LD + Anduril Ghost Shark + HII REMUS) + subsea×commercial (Bedrock Ocean) + autonomy-system (Sea Machines) + hybrid surface+subsea (Ocean Aero Triton) + legacy-prime entity-scoped (Kongsberg HUGIN AUV + Exail DriX USV). Editorial throughlines: regime matrix (surface×commercial vs surface×defense vs subsea×commercial vs subsea×defense vs autonomy-system vs hybrid); new-defense maritime extension (Saronic + Anduril extend Anduril+Helsing+Shield-AI new-defense from aerial into water, contrasting HII REMUS legacy prime); entity-scoping discipline (registry entity scoped to AI-primary vehicle not parent corp); captive-data-as-a-service vs hardware-sale vs autonomy-system-vendor business-model split.

  • What is Anduril Dive-LD?

    Anduril Dive-LD is a defense subsea autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) from Anduril, fielded with US Navy UUVRON-1. Per Agent A maritime source-depth hygiene: 6,000m operating depth (NOT hull-length dimension; Agent A foundational caught the hull-length-vs-depth conflation). Lattice-wired (integrated with Anduril's autonomy stack). Editorial throughline: extends the new-defense AI-first cohort from aerial (Anduril Ghost-X + Helsing HX-2 + Shield AI V-BAT) into subsea; the new-defense cohort spans full air + surface + subsea per the maritime cluster framework. Cohort positioning: defense subsea archetype within the maritime cluster's new-defense vs legacy-prime axis.

  • What is Anduril Ghost Shark?

    Anduril Ghost Shark is a defense subsea autonomous undersea vehicle (XLUUV) from Anduril, in active production for the Royal Australian Navy. Per Agent A maritime source-depth hygiene: A$1.7B RAN production contract September 2025 (CORRECTED from A$140M 2022 co-development figure that aggregator coverage conflated). Sub-killer ASW (anti-submarine warfare) mission profile; Lattice-wired (integrated with Anduril's cross-domain autonomy stack). Editorial throughline: production-tier new-defense maritime exemplar; Australian RAN as anchor customer. Cohort positioning: defense subsea production archetype within the maritime cluster's new-defense AI-first tier alongside Dive-LD fielded archetype.

  • How does DEPLOY track acquisition history state?

    DEPLOY tracks acquisition history state as a five-structure taxonomy operating at relationship-graph granularity per Agent A's Arc D substrate (29 acquisitions + 20 FK-acquirer + 9 external + 7 acquired-assets typed). The structure taxonomy: full_acquisition (acquirer absorbs target entirely; target ceases as independent entity) → asset_purchase (specific assets transfer; target may continue) → acqui_hire (team transfers; assets minimal) → license_and_hire (Amazon × Covariant canonical: RFM models licensed + team transitions; Covariant remains standalone under Stinson; ~25% staff transition documented) → spac_merger (de-SPAC pattern; Sarcos → Palladyne canonical example). The four-state valuation_basis discipline: exact (SEC-disclosed or court-record) versus reported (press-release; not SEC-verifiable) versus undisclosed (transaction confirmed but valuation not disclosed) versus contingent (ZB × Monogram CVR canonical: structured contingent payment with earnout). The canonical lesson banked at validator-discipline depth: exact name match only, never alias-contains, in M&A graphs (6 acquisitions reverted from alias-contains reconciliation bug). Cap-flag-as-trust-signal operates recursively on acquisition framing.

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Founders (5)

Board (5)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Anduril Industries.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Recent coverage

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