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Anduril Secures Landmark Air Force Drone Contract

Anduril just won a production contract for autonomous fighters with the US Air Force. It’s also secured a key role in the race to provide software for those aircraft, and is moving toward scaled manufacturing as the Pentagon pushes for a fleet of up to 1,000 autonomous combat jets. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed…

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Anduril just won a production contract for autonomous fighters with the US Air Force. It’s also secured a key role in the race to provide software for those aircraft, and is moving toward scaled manufacturing as the Pentagon pushes for a fleet of up to 1,000 autonomous combat jets. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss it all.
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    June 18, 2026 at 3:09 pm

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  17. @JohnDoe-sy6tt

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  18. @oldschoolbikerider

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  19. @SteelBattalion07

    June 18, 2026 at 3:43 pm

    Ooh building an Arsenal 2 or 3 in Taiwan would be interesting

    • @mjk9388

      June 18, 2026 at 3:51 pm

      I agree that Arsenal 2/3 being built in Taiwan would be interesting. I figured out that for roughly $9.8 billion (about half of ONE Trump-class nuclear-powered battleship), the United States and its partners could acquire approximately 1,875 fully stocked 20-foot ISO container launchers carrying a total of 30,000 anti-ship cruise missiles. This mix of missiles would include roughly 21,000 low-cost Anduril Barracuda-500 missiles, 7,500 medium-payload containerized cruise missiles, and 1,500 LRASM anti-ship missiles, all designed or adaptable for launch from standard cargo containers. At this production scale, reliable cost efficiencies would bring the blended all-in price per missile well below current single-missile programs while providing the lethality needed to reliably sink or disable the entire Chinese Navy. These systems would be pre-positioned and rapidly distributed and hidden across the 1000+ numerous small islands, islets, and outposts in the first island chain controlled by Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. From these dispersed locations, all of the missiles would be well within range to strike Chinese warships operating in the waters surrounding those nations.

      If the $9.8 billion total cost were shared proportionally according to each nation’s current defense spending, the breakdown would be approximately:

      United States: $8.99 billion (91.7%). For comparison, the US is spending ~$20–35 billion on increased defense spending right now, which would be reliably attributed to Pacific defense.
      Japan: $588 million (6.0%)
      Taiwan: $167 million (1.7%)
      Philippines: $59 million (0.6%)

      I think this approach would deliver a resilient, high-volume, and highly survivable anti-ship capability that would be far more difficult and costly for an adversary to neutralize than a single large surface combatant. And, if the Chinese finally understood that peace is WAY more profitable than war, the US could always reposition its containers elsewhere on the world and/or put them on manned and unmanned ships and/or give to land units of the army and marines.

    • @SteelBattalion07

      June 18, 2026 at 5:23 pm

      Taipei 101 costs about 2 B2 bombers; the amount of metal used for the building could build a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. A mini Arsenal factory is probably cheaper and less complex than a TSMC fab

  20. @mjk9388

    June 18, 2026 at 3:52 pm

    I figured out that for roughly $9.8 billion (about half of ONE Trump-class nuclear-powered battleship), the United States and its partners could acquire approximately 1,875 fully stocked 20-foot ISO container launchers carrying a total of 30,000 anti-ship cruise missiles. This mix of missiles would include roughly 21,000 low-cost Anduril Barracuda-500 missiles, 7,500 medium-payload containerized cruise missiles, and 1,500 LRASM anti-ship missiles, all designed or adaptable for launch from standard cargo containers. At this production scale, reliable cost efficiencies would bring the blended all-in price per missile well below current single-missile programs while providing the lethality needed to reliably sink or disable the entire Chinese Navy. These systems would be pre-positioned and rapidly distributed and hidden across the 1000+ numerous small islands, islets, and outposts in the first island chain controlled by Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. From these dispersed locations, all of the missiles would be well within range to strike Chinese warships operating in the waters surrounding those nations.

    If the $9.8 billion total cost were shared proportionally according to each nation’s current defense spending, the breakdown would be approximately:

    United States: $8.99 billion (91.7%). For comparison, the US is spending ~$20–35 billion on increased defense spending right now, which would be reliably attributed to Pacific defense.
    Japan: $588 million (6.0%)
    Taiwan: $167 million (1.7%)
    Philippines: $59 million (0.6%)

    I think this approach would deliver a resilient, high-volume, and highly survivable anti-ship capability that would be far more difficult and costly for an adversary to neutralize than a single large surface combatant. And, if the Chinese finally understood that peace is WAY more profitable than war, the US could always reposition its containers elsewhere on the world and/or put them on manned and unmanned ships and/or give to land units of the army and marines.

  21. @nixter1nixter1

    June 18, 2026 at 4:43 pm

    The irony here is hard to miss. The speaker repeatedly talks about Russia as an adversary threatening U.S. interests, expanding weapons production to deter adversaries, and strengthening allies against hostile nations. Yet the current administration is often accused by its critics of maintaining unusually friendly relations with Russia and North Korea, two governments that are among the most authoritarian and militarized on Earth.

    If Russia is truly such a major threat that it justifies massive increases in weapons production, expanded military alliances, and urgent defense programs, then it seems contradictory to simultaneously portray closer relations with Moscow as a positive development. The same applies to North Korea. The talking points assume Russia and its partners are dangerous adversaries requiring deterrence, while political rhetoric elsewhere sometimes treats them as potential friends. Both positions cannot be fully true at the same time.

  22. @stevemaas7046

    June 18, 2026 at 5:27 pm

    More billion-dollar systems that can be taken out with $300 drones.

  23. @jg5875

    June 18, 2026 at 8:16 pm

    Love this. The military industrial complex has become far too bloated and costly. Nimble new vendors like Anduril are the solution!

  24. @Publius-24

    June 18, 2026 at 8:28 pm

    “Pacifists would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, remembering that these defenses were forced; that Troy fell; that the walls of Hadrian succumbed; that the Great Wall of China was futile; and that, by the same token, the mighty seas which are alleged to defend us can also be circumvented by a resolute and ingenious opponent. In war, the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”
    General George Patton; “War As I Knew It”; published 1947; page 238.

    9/11 proved the General to be correct.

  25. @Publius-24

    June 18, 2026 at 8:28 pm

    “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
    President Washington

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses the latest announcement made by President Donald Trump, which will see Apple and Intel joining forces to produce chips domestically, sending shares of the chipmaker higher. Plus, Anduril’s CEO discusses how the company won a contract with the US Air Force to produce autonomous fighters. And, SpaceX wraps up its first…

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses the latest announcement made by President Donald Trump, which will see Apple and Intel joining forces to produce chips domestically, sending shares of the chipmaker higher. Plus, Anduril’s CEO discusses how the company won a contract with the US Air Force to produce autonomous fighters. And, SpaceX wraps up its first full week of trading, with shares falling for a second day straight.

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