BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, MAR 24, 2026 – 05:45 AM
Weaponized AI, interceptor drones, automated kill chains, ground robots armed with machine guns, humanoid robots, and FPVs equipped with shaped charges all offer a scary preview of what warfare in the 2030s was expected to look like.
Instead, four years of war in Ukraine, followed by the U.S.-Iran conflict, have sharply accelerated that timeline, pulling the future of warfare into today. These are truly frightening times, as defenses against this technology are still lacking across the West (Amazon found that out with its data centers bombed).
We warned about this drone threat exactly one month before. Wall Street analysts largely missed it because their framework remained fixated on climate change nonsense rather than properly assessing real-world incoming risks. They get paid the big bucks, yet still fail to see actual threats.
On the positive side, the U.S. Department of War under President Trump appears to recognize that the modern battlefield is shifting quickly toward low-cost, scalable autonomous systems (first revealed here). In response, the DoW’s DOGE initiative is focused on overhauling its procurement program, moving away from legacy primes such as Lockheed and Boeing and toward a new generation of defense startups, or "war unicorns," now viewed as a national security priority.
This brings us to Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industries, which is expected to begin production of its new FURY "loyal wingman" high-speed combat drones at a new facility in Ohio next week.
Soon. https://t.co/6V68tR0nF9 pic.twitter.com/KZj6bmUZAp
— Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) March 20, 2026
Reuters said Anduril’s new Columbus-based production facility is expected to employ more than 4,000 people over the next decade, starting with 250 this year as production begins to ramp up for the new drone built for the Air Force loyal-wingman program.
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