Anduril's First Fury Rolls Off the Line at Arsenal-1 | Jul 29, 2026

The Collaborative Combat Aircraft race just stopped being a design contest and became a manufacturing contest.This week: Anduril rolls its first production YFQ-44A "Fury" off the line at its $1 billion Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio, just eighteen months after groundbreaking — turning up the pressure on General Atomics and BAE after their Farnborough reveals. Quantum Cyber completes its first mini-interceptor drone at a new Bridgeport, Connecticut facility, targeting 100,000 units a year as part of a twelve-drone swarm architecture. Ukraine's 413th Regiment, callsign Raid, suppresses 696 Russian drones in nineteen days using electronic warfare alone — zero kinetic engagements — and we connect it directly to Russia's Rubicon unit hunting EW crews. Russian forces adopt analog magnetic compasses to counter Ukraine's Pokrova GPS-spoofing network. And the FY2027 Department of War budget locks in $53.6 billion for "Drone Dominance," including a 424 percent jump in counter-UAS funding. Plus a watchlist on Europe's stalled Drone Wall, a jam-resistant Russian fiber-optic strike drone, and Anduril's reported run at a $100 billion valuation.Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible — always verify with primary sources.