"This is a huge milestone for Anduril, the Air Force, and the United States. The world’s first autonomous fighter jet opens a new frontier for tactics, technology, and morality. That is how we—Anduril and the US Air Force—will write the first pages of a new chapter in the history of aviation."
Anduril Co-Founder Palmer Luckey
Anduril’s Fury YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft, designed in conjunction with the US Air Force, made its first flight on October 31, 2025. Anduril and the Air Force moved the Fury from clean sheet (no reuse of existing airframe, product, or codebase) to first flight in just 556 days, aiming to outpace rapidly evolving adversaries.
Unlike remotely piloted aircraft, the Fury flies semi-autonomously from day one, executing mission plans, managing flight controls, and returning to land without an operator aboard. Designed to gain and maintain air superiority, the Fury is currently flight testing to validate speed, maneuverability, stealth, range, weapons integration, and—crucially—collaboration with crewed fighters.
The Fury is designed to serve as a “wingman” alongside crewed fighter jets, enhancing their sensing and strike capacity while enabling rapid, scalable production and software-upgradable combat capability.
