Anduril's Fury Fires First CCA Air-to-Air Missile | Jul 17, 2026

Autonomous air combat just stopped being a demo — an uncrewed fighter drone fired a live air-to-air missile for the first time, driven end-to-end by software.In this episode, Marcus and Sam break down Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury launching an AIM-120 AMRAAM over the Mojave, the first live air-to-air shot by any U.S. Collaborative Combat Aircraft, with Lattice software running the intercept and the operator reduced to authorizer. They dig into why the cloud itself became a battlefield target after Iranian Revolutionary Guard drones struck AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — and the scramble toward edge computing with Anduril-AWS Menace, Armada's Galleon, and the Marines' new Maven-based ODIN reporting system and "cloudless" networks. Plus: NATO's $40 billion Drone Edge Initiative and LCI-X integration exercise, the U.S. Army's Warden event and "read-the-drone" counter-UAS sensors, AeroVironment's $500M contract, the EU's fresh €1 billion drone package for Ukraine, deep strikes inside Russia up 1,150%, and Turkey's Titra Alpin drone-launching mothership.Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible — always verify with primary sources.