Anduril Bets on Simple Factory to Mass-Produce Uncrewed Fighters
A scale model of the Anduril Fury at the company’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, California.
Photographer: Kyle Grillot/BloombergAnduril Industries is ready to roll its first uncrewed Fury fighter off a production line in Ohio this summer, producing the computer-brained plane with a novel techniques: made-by-hand assembly without complicated machinery or robotics.
In a former distribution warehouse amid farm fields near Rickenbacker International Airport outside of Columbus, the line at Anduril’s Arsenal 1 factory was empty of parts and people this week. But in a few days, the company plans to begin assembling the first jet-powered Fury, chosen alongside the General Atomics Merlin for the first increment of the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.