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Manufactured at Arsenal-1 Ohio ($1B facility).","formFactor":"aerial","industryVertical":"defense","environment":"airspace","maturityStage":"production","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (gating events)","value":"Sept 2024: selected for the US Army Company-Level sUAS Directed Requirement Tranche 1 (with PDW C-100); $14.417M 10-year IDIQ. Selected via the Army's Medium Range Reconnaissance (Replicator) program for rapid fielding to Brigade Combat Teams. Fielded with US forces: 13 Army units flew 1,200+ unit-hours over the prior year (Anduril, citing Army exercise data); Ukraine combat use since 2022. $1B Ohio manufacturing facility announced Jan 2025."},{"label":"AI-substance: SUBSTANTIVE","value":"Lattice delivers real onboard autonomy: radio-silent autonomous flight, single-operator multi-drone teaming, automatic mission hand-off on low battery. Fielded autonomy, not slideware. (Wired to the existing lattice Brain. NOTE: Hivemind is SHIELD AI's stack, not Anduril's - Ghost is NOT wired to hivemind.)"},{"label":"Counter-evidence (kept, not suppressed)","value":"A Ghost-X crashed in uncontrolled flight during Jan 2025 training near Hohenfels, Germany; Bloomberg (Nov 2025) reported broader Anduril drone-crash setbacks. Real reliability friction; Anduril says cause identified/fixed and units continued operating. Argues against the very top of production tier but not below it."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"A later ~$17M Apr 2026 Ghost-X ISR contract (trade press, primary not reached - re-verify); '300% more effective vs OPFOR' (Anduril citing Army exercise framing, not an independent DoD release); marketing compute-speed figures; precise total fielded unit count."}],"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. 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