Overview
- Late July saw Anduril’s first YFQ-44A Fury built at the Arsenal-1 campus in Pickaway County, Ohio, move from assembly to production-representative status.
- The production milestone follows recent Air Force tests that included an end-to-end, beyond-line-of-sight live-fire using an inert AIM-120 to validate CCA integration and tactics.
- Anduril says the Arsenal-1 Fury line can produce about 150 airframes per year and the company has committed roughly $910.5 million to the campus and plans to add around 4,000 jobs by 2035.
- Air Force officials emphasize that humans will retain command over any decision to release munitions from semi-autonomous CCAs, and the service is planning an initial increment of roughly 100 to 150 aircraft.
- The rollout shifts the program from testing toward operational fielding and industrial scale-up, with ongoing Agile Combat Employment exercises collecting data to shape procurement, tactics, and force structure.