Anduril bets on surface-launched version of autonomous cruise missile

By Theresa Maher / September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Anduril Industries, responding to government demand signals to expand the U.S. munitions industrial base, has unveiled a new variant of its Barracuda family of software-defined, low-cost and mass-producible cruise missiles -- a surface-launched version of the Barracuda-500. Historically munitions demand has ebbed and flowed, and munitions are typically the last area to be funded in the defense budget, Steve Milano, senior director for advanced effects at Anduril, told reporters Tuesday at the Air and Space Forces...

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