Deployment
Anduril Bolt at United States
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).
Anduril Bolt by Anduril Industries · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Drones
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US Marine Corps Organic Precision Fires - Light (OPF-L) program: a $23.9M award for 600+ Bolt-M loitering munitions, with fielding to infantry in 2026.
Key facts
- Operator
- US Marine Corps
- Program
- OPF-L; $23.9M, 600+ Bolt-M (Jan 2026)
- Use Case
- Loitering munitions
- Fielding
- To infantry in 2026
Exposure
- Customer segment
- defense
- Scale tier
- mass 100 999
- Contract value
- $23900000 (reported)
- Customer
- US Marine Corps
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Anduril Bolt at United States.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Model
- Anduril Bolt
- Company
- Anduril Industries
- Location
- United States
- Operator
- Anduril Industries
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- customer deployed
- Scale at site
- 100+ units
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2026-01-15
- ID
62964d83-08a5-4e28-ac99-10a22ba33ad6
Timeline
- Jan 2026First recordedAnduril Bolt first documented operating at United States.
- May 2026created
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Sources (2)
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Anduril's reveal of its man-portable Bolt VTOL reconnaissance drone and the Bolt-M strike variant. Bolt-M is a loitering munition; the operator initiates the strike.