Overview
- Anduril began building the YFQ-44A Fury on Monday at its Arsenal-1 site in Ohio, launching a 22-station line that starts with about 30 trained workers and little fixed automation.
- The company targets roughly 50 aircraft a year at first with a path to about 150 a year using multiple shifts, and it expects the first jet off the line this summer even as the Air Force has not set buy quantities.
- Arsenal-1 favors fast, flexible manufacturing with few permanent fixtures, and Fury’s design leans on producibility using aluminum parts, commercial components for about 94 percent of the build, and a business-jet engine.
- Anduril says it has invested about $1 billion in the campus and plans to add lines for its Roadrunner drone, Barracuda cruise missile, and a classified program by year’s end, with hiring expected to reach about 250 staff this year and as many as 4,000 over the next decade.
- Fury remains in Air Force testing alongside General Atomics’ rival design in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, and the production ramp at Arsenal-1 depends on weapons integration milestones and procurement awards expected later in 2026.