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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.

Ghost (Ghost-X) is an aerial robot built by Anduril Industries.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
aerial
Maturity stage
production
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
c1e3992b-46c2-4cd8-bda0-827e35e6230f

Specs

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specs
Ghost-X (current; redesigned on Ukraine combat feedback; lineage Ghost 4, Sept 2020). Endurance ~75-90 min, range ~25 km, payload ~20-25 lb (specs drift by source/variant). Runs Anduril's Lattice autonomy. On the DIU Blue UAS List (China-free supply chain).
formFactor
aerial (helicopter-style single-rotor autonomous VTOL small UAS for ISR/reconnaissance)

Runs on (1)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (5)

  1. https://www.army.mil/article/279603/
  2. https://defensescoop.com/2024/10/17/replicator-ghost-x-drones-anduril-army/
  3. https://breakingdefense.com/2024/09/army-selects-two-attritable-uass-for-company-level-recon-surveillance-and-target-acquisition/
  4. https://defence-industry.eu/anduril-responds-to-reports-of-failed-altius-and-ghost-x-tests-with-wider-context-on-development/
  5. https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/ghost-4-vtol-suas/

Common questions

What is 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.
Who makes Ghost (Ghost-X)?
Ghost (Ghost-X) is made by Anduril Industries, based in Costa Mesa, California, USA, founded in 2017.
Where is Ghost (Ghost-X) deployed?
No verified deployments of Ghost (Ghost-X) are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Ghost (Ghost-X)'s maturity stage?
Ghost (Ghost-X) is at the production stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Production stage means high-volume manufacture and commercial-scale deployments are sustained.
What AI powers Ghost (Ghost-X)?
Ghost (Ghost-X) runs Anduril Lattice. Each brain assignment is verified at the registry level via primary sources.