Anduril's YFQ-44A "Fury" prototype spotted flight testing in Victorville, CA.

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By-Eck@reddit

Interesting choice of chase plane...🤔

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LeatherRole2297@reddit

Concur! -29, like, why? Vastly more modern choices with speed envelope wider in both directions and far better loiter time. Don’t get it. Maybe it was an alternate chase?

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decollimate28@reddit

I’m not sure what you think they’re chasing but they don’t need any of that for that drone

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G8M8N8@reddit

Anduril is a young private contractor. They don’t have the blank cheque yet for frivolous purchases like Skunkworks & CO.

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Nighthawk-FPV@reddit

Even Lockheed Martin used a Piper Navajo to test launch their CMMT missiles

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Jorfogit@reddit

Anduril is funded by Peter Theil, the devil himself. They might as well have infinite money.

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MoistFW190@reddit

And then Palmer Luckey just looks like a villain from a cartoon

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TILiFU@reddit

🎶 peter thiel knows about the anti-christ 🎶

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LeatherRole2297@reddit

Lolololol yall with the downvotes wtf 😂😂😂

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Im not sure I see the point; it can carry 2 amraams externally, so its not stealthy. Its also not fast and presumably has limited range. Can it even refuel in flight? Its not cheap enough to be expandable. A murder hornet can carry 10 armraams, a F15EX even 12. Is this going to be significantly more than 5-6x cheaper to buy, operate and maintain? Seems doubtful. And even if it is, you still only matched the missile carrying capability per dollar, you also lose all the other capabilities of a multirole fighter.

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Phirane@reddit

Is this really the best airframe they could come up with without the limitations of a human pilot in 2025? Looks like a trainer without a cockpit

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wehooper4@reddit

And is that a bad thing? These are supposed to be cheap, not sexy

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TypicalBlox@reddit

yeah everyone shits on anduril but I am a fan of their “cheap & mass producible” mindset, this is what we need now.

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Time_Restaurant5480@reddit

Because this is supposed to be a stealthly design and I don't see any weapons bay? Maybe that's why they're being shat on?

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BreathOther@reddit

The robot plane doesn’t need the highest level of stealth if it’s 100 miles away from the bomb truck

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stupidpower@reddit

I am not exactly sure how removing the flesh will make things dramatically different for aerodynamics? The human and the human interfaces are not exactly that heavy in the grand scheme of things, you still run into the same issues trying to put the computers somewhere sensible that wouldn’t get in the way of aero, and that place is still between the engines and the radar.

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Glass-Helicopter-126@reddit

Highly recommend the Rogan podcast with Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey. He's, uh, not what I expected.

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Tight-Acanthaceae-84@reddit

Yeah he's an interesting and passionate guy that is clearly intelligent. People just hate him for his politics. He is very inspiring to say the least.

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Time_Restaurant5480@reddit

People in the know don't like him because he overpromises and underdelivers. Where's any of his company's in-house designs? I don't see any in service yet.

This CCA is supposed to be a stealthy combat aircraft, yet I don't see a weapons bay anywhere.

There was also in infamous rectangle-shaped torpedo.

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BreathOther@reddit

Tower, ghost, roadrunner, and anvil are all in house and in service

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AreWeThereYetNo@reddit

So this is Skynet Kitty Hawk?

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Stef100111@reddit

No, the General Atomics one already flew back in August

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BreathOther@reddit

With a pilot

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One_Cryptographer324@reddit

Not autonomously though

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slipperyslope69@reddit

I know who will be getting 50 of these for free to ‘test out’

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Lawsoffire@reddit

The fuck is up with all of this American military/surveillance stuff having LOTR names?

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NPRdude@reddit

Fucking Peter Thiel. He literally named his invasion of privacy surveillance company Palantir, because he’s a fucking asshole who needs to be tossed into the sun.

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Time_Restaurant5480@reddit

Yeah, him. Doesn't get the books at all...although given that in the books the Dark Lord uses the Palantier to ensnare one of the good guys and drive another to suicidal despair, his company isn't entirely wrongly named.

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Derp800@reddit

Where does the payload go?

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Time_Restaurant5480@reddit

Good question. This is why every professional aqusitions guy considers Andruil a scam.

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d_e_u_s@reddit

It doesn't have internal weapons bays, it carries two AMRAAMs on external hardpoints 🥀

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arialatom@reddit

AI on the vert is giving me Skynet vibes

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zoinkability@reddit

Given it’s Thiel company, who is essentially the foremost proponent of making Skynet a template rather than a warning, you aren’t wrong

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luvsads@reddit

Which is Thiels company? Anduril Fury and Kratos Valkryie will be running Shield AI Hivemind. He doesn't own any of those, does he?

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zoinkability@reddit

He owns a major stake in it via his investments

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aiusernamegen@reddit

Don't worry.

"In a 2024 interview, Luckey described himself as a "radical Zionist". Palmer intends for Israel to deploy an entire fleet of his company's autonomous weapons in the future, including via billion dollar aid packages delivered from Anduril itself."

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abcpdo@reddit

turns out he means the other Zion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_(The_Matrix)

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aiusernamegen@reddit

Ah so he's the Architect

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Sivalon@reddit

Concordantly.

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frogsRfriends@reddit

You should listen to the rest of the interview instead of quoting it with no context

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aiusernamegen@reddit

I did. Sounds like Skynet 1000%

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dootdoot1997@reddit

close enough welcome back yak38

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aka_Handbag@reddit

It’s STOVL?

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luvsads@reddit

No

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AreWeThereYetNo@reddit

😆

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TwistPrior6897@reddit

Do test planes usually fly with the gear down like that?

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AhoyWilliam@reddit

At some phases, yes (both of testing and, obviously, of flight as well).

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hongrand@reddit

Slide 3 Close enough welcome back Me 262

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nikkythegreat@reddit

I wonder how these compare to their Chinese equivalent like the GJ-11

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InternationalCat3714@reddit

I think its Chinese counterpart should be the FH-97.

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Gman90sKid@reddit

Rear half of the plane looks like a design from the 50's

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supaloopar@reddit

This does not look stealthy at all

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imanhodjaev@reddit

F16 without a human

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adDashy@reddit

No living human?

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StormTheDragon20@reddit

It looks like if the F-16 was made in 2030s with the help of generative AI instead of the 1970s.

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masteroffdesaster@reddit

yeah, like an F-16 without pilot support systems

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Sivalon@reddit

Or good looks.

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masteroffdesaster@reddit

true

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four_zero_four@reddit

F16.5 Franken Falcon

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meatyokker@reddit

Didn’t we make a movie about this back in the mid 00’s?

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Kanyiko@reddit

For a moment I thought I was looking at a drone F-16 with its canopy removed.

Also some interesting design hints in there if somebody ever thought of 'modernising' the F-16 towards a more stealthy variant.

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Mobile-Ice-7261@reddit

Anduril...flame of the west

I see what they did there lol

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In terms of targeted performance, Blue Force Technologies had designed Fury to be able to fly at altitudes up to 50,000 feet and at transonic speeds of up to around Mach 0.95. The goal was for the airframe to be able to perform at up to +9 Gs and down to -3 Gs for short periods, and be able to pull +4.5 Gs for more sustained portions of its flight while operating at around 20,000 feet, all depending on the drone’s exact loadout.

https://www.twz.com/the-rise-of-fury

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tractorcrusher@reddit

Am I crazy or is the landing gear door painted to look like a waving American flag?

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Alternative_Ear5542@reddit

Am I crazy

Yes.

is the landing gear door painted to look like a waving American flag?

Also yes.

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