US company Anduril has unveiled a new family of air-breathing, software-defined expendable Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) optimised for affordable, hyper-scale production. The Barracuda family of AAVs, which were launched globally to coincide with the Land Forces 2024 Expo in Melbourne,…
US high-technology company Anduril displayed its Roadrunner autonomous air vehicle for the first time in Australia at Land Forces 2024. The company says Roadrunner is a radically new, recoverable, cost-effective kinetic interceptor for ground-based air defence. The modular twin-jet powered autonomous…
US firm Anduril has been awarded a US$19 million ($28.7 million) contract to design, build, and test second stage rocket motors for use in the US Navy’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) anti-air, surface, and hypersonic missile that is deployable on 60…
With the FY2024 budget now approved, the US Department of the Air Force has selected Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) for detailed design, manufacture and testing of production representative test articles under the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)…
US aerospace and defence company Boeing has delivered the first Orca Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) to the US Navy following the completion of acceptance testing. The XLUUV is a new class of autonomous submarine that can perform long…
California-based Anduril has successfully demonstrated its Lattice for Mission Autonomy Operating System (OS) at the U.S. Army’s EDGE23 exercise, enabling an integrated team of multiple uncrewed aircraft to locate, identify and destroy a surface-to-air missile (SAM) site in support of…
Sydney-based Quickstep Holdings Ltd has signed a $2.34 million follow-on contract with fellow Sydney company Carbonix for the production and supply of 40 composite airframe shipsets for their latest long-range Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS). This will allow Carbonix to fulfil…
Australian Defence Magazine’s online news service, Defence Week Premium reports that Defence has named the extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle program (XL-AUV) being developed by Anduril Australia as ‘Ghost Shark’. See the article here. The naming ceremony, attended by the Head…
Sydney based drone manufacturer and solutions provider Carbonix is partnering with Quickstep Holdings, Australia’s largest independent manufacturer of aerospace composites to manufacture aerostructures for its Volanti drones. Volanti is Carbonix’s smallest all-electric fixed-wing VTOL UAV (Vertical take-off and landing Un-crewed…
California-based AI and networking firm Anduril has established an Australian subsidiary, Anduril Australia, located in Sydney with David Goodrich OAM as CEO and Executive Chairman. The new subsidiary will design, develop, manufacture and market major product lines in Australia.…