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AIR SUPREMACY: Anduril’s High-Speed Drone ‘Fury’ Starts Production in New US Plant (VIDEOS)

Stealth aircraft displayed in a hangar with an American flag and a wind tunnel in the background.

Stealth aircraft displayed in a hangar with an American flag and a wind tunnel in the background.
 Anduril’s ‘Fury’ – photo by By Master Sgt. Gustavo Castillo/Wiki Commons

Another deadly tool for the strike packages.

It’s hard to overstate just how much the strike (or kamikaze) drones have become a defining feature of today’s battlefields.

Since day one in his second presidential term, Donald J. Trump demanded from Pentagon contractors strike drones that were inexpensive and deadly – and that’s what he is getting.

Now, as the US is undertaking a military operation against Iran and proxy groups, the Lucas drones – an adaptation of the Iranian Shaheed – is being widely used, with a new model expected soon.

Anduril Industries announced that it is to begin building its new high-speed combat drone, FURY, the ‘loyal wingman’ ‌, in the coming days.

The ‘Fury’ will be manufactured at a new US facility in Ohio.

Reuters reported:

“Amid cornfields and horse farms 20 miles (32 km) south of Columbus, ​Ohio, the defense tech start-up is expecting its $1 billion Arsenal-1 autonomous systems manufacturing ​campus to employ more than 4,000 people over the next decade, starting with ⁠roughly 250 by the end of this year, officials said on Thursday.”

“Anduril is one ​of a new but growing group of small defense firms hoping to win lucrative Pentagon contracts ​for next-generation weapons. The Trump administration hopes the newer firms will help upend weapons manufacturing by delivering cutting-edge technology more quickly and at a lower cost.”

“Rather than designing products first and worrying ​about production later, the company bakes manufacturability in from Day 1 — choosing commercial materials such as aluminum ‌over titanium, ⁠using composite techniques borrowed from the recreational boat industry, and selecting a commercial business jet engine for the FURY program specifically because of its well-established supply chain and maintenance ecosystem.

Production of the company’s FURY autonomous aircraft will be the first to launch at the facility. The FURY ​is Anduril’s entrant for ​the Collaborative Combat ⁠Aircraft program – part of an Air Force plan for a next-generation family of systems, an effort to equip crewed fighter jets and other ​planes with an uncrewed platform that would fly alongside the human ​pilots.”

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