Anduril Unveils Jet Powered Drone that Can Explode or Fly Back Home

Anduril has unveiled an autonomous jet powered drone called Roadrunner designed to serve as an interceptor of aerial threats ranging from large drones to manned aircraft.

Anduril’s Roadrunner is a modular twin jet powered autonomous vertical takeoff and landing air vehicle with extraordinary performance at low cost. The company has also developed a variant called Roadrunner Munition (Roadrunner-M) which is a high explosive interceptor.

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[موسى_]

Basically, this is a missile which can go back home if it can't find its target. The SpacEx missile.

[ubetcherass]

Why is there no dirt kicked up during the landing (last 5 seconds)?

[rfarevalo]

Each missile costs money. Often misses may cost in excess of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In some cases missiles cost millions. Having a missile you can launch and then return if it is not needed (target already destroyed) will save the USA a lot of money.

[kyjarhead]

I love American ingenuity. What a marvel!

[henrytshabalala]

Anduril has sharpen the US army more than any advesary may think they know it all.When it comes to autonomy weapons the US had been working behind the scenes without revealing their intel of what they re doing to counter any threat to advesaries.

[markobaran]

Next time get a real person to read the script. This was painful.

[azzarat]

I imagine future development wherein launching the explosives at a certain proximity of the target. Then, the carrier/wings return to the home base. Thus, reducing the cost of expending the entire airframe.

[aleksandariliev]

Must also work hard to have and better sheld for ewriting... and that it's awesome nice work...for defense it's good...and keep working hard

[scruffy]

On God, I have a dream about this drone and have to look it up.

[blueslsd]

Game changer for Ukraine in the Kherson region. No Need for tanks

[joedoe]

Why would anybody want an armed missile to come back to sender?