Anduril's Thunder & Lockheed's Microwave Drone Killer | Jul 22, 2026

The robot wingman just escaped the fighter world — and this week it landed in helicopters, warships, and the electrical grid.Live from the fallout of the Farnborough air show, Marcus and Sam break down Anduril and Archer's Thunder, an autonomous attack tiltrotor built to fly alongside the AH-64 Apache and the future Bell MV-75, running Anduril's Lattice autonomy and small enough to fit in a shipping container. They dig into Lockheed Martin's Morfius X-Rotor, a recoverable high-power microwave interceptor that claims to neutralize 50-plus drones in a single flight, and why its cost-per-kill math changes the counter-swarm fight. Then to Ukraine, where Russian fiber-optic drones — jam-proof and spoof-proof — are hitting the Kherson power grid, and Ukraine is racing to field a unified ground-control station. Plus GCAP Tempest pulling ahead as the West's only buyable sixth-generation fighter after Germany's FCAS exit, Canada joining as observer, armed Saildrone unmanned surface vessels at RIMPAC 2026, the Navy's MUSV drone-boat marketplace, QinetiQ's laser push, and the UK's newly funded Storm Fighter.Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible — always verify with primary sources.