Billionaire Palmer Luckey’s defence tech start-up is betting on a robotic, data-driven vision of future conflict, and its Australian operations are up and running.

In our British and European editions, we feature an interview with Friedrich Merz, who is the clear front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor. America’s armed forces face a real problem.

Based in Costa Mesa, Calif., Anduril seeks to build U.S. military weapons and platforms by “hyperscaling” manufacturing with advanced software and production technologies, the state said.

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Palmer Luckey, founder of the California-based Anduril Industries, told the Los Angeles Times that his company has already sold a "handful" of Roadrunners to a U.S. government agency.

Anduril's Roadrunner-M C-UAS vehicle. (Anduril) Anduril unveiled a reusable, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air vehicle on 1 December. The twin turbojet-powered vehicle, dubbed Roadrunner ...

Anduril, at its last valuation, is worth $8.48 billion and has no intention of being profitable any time soon. But Luckey sees Roadrunner as a milestone on the path to primehood.

After Palmer Luckey founded Anduril in 2017, he promised it would be a new kind of defense contractor, inspired by hacker ingenuity and Silicon Valley speed. The company’s latest product, a jet ...

Anduril executives said that Road Runner’s price tag is in the “low six figures” right now and would fall even lower when orders come rolling in.

Roadrunner is a VTOL autonomous air vehicle designed to be customized for various missions; Roadrunner-M defines a radical new class of recoverable ground-based air defense capability. Costa Mesa, CA ...

Anduril has also developed a variant called Roadrunner-Munition, or Roadrunner-M, a “high-explosive interceptor,” meaning it can carry a warhead and also defensively destroy aerial threats.