Anduril Industries has introduced the Roadrunner and Roadrunner-Munition (Roadrunner-M).
Roadrunner is a modular, twin-jet powered autonomous air car with extraordinary efficiency at low value. Vertical takeoff and touchdown functionality provides Roadrunner the pliability to quickly launch from and return to any location, pairing excessive subsonic velocity with distinctive agility and stability. Like all Anduril merchandise, Roadrunner is designed to be future proof. The modular payload system can carry a wide range of payloads to perform broad units of missions and might be continuously up to date to fulfill the threats of tomorrow.
Roadrunner-M is a high-explosive interceptor variant of Roadrunner for ground-based air protection that may quickly establish, intercept and destroy an array of aerial threats which are as much as 100 occasions dearer, or be recovered and reused at near-zero value. Malicious actors are more and more utilizing state-owned and commercially-available drone know-how to threaten the personnel, infrastructure and belongings of the USA and our allies world wide. Anduril already gives a counter UAS household of techniques to guard in opposition to such threats, and Roadrunner-M is our latest addition to that household. Roadrunner-M was designed to handle threats that stretch throughout legacy air protection echelons, combating adversary makes an attempt to design round gaps in present air protection architectures.
Much like conventional approaches to discourage and defeat incoming aerial threats like scrambling costly and airfield-dependent jets, Roadrunner-M can take off, comply with, and intercept distant targets on the first trace of hazard, giving operators extra data and time to evaluate the goal and guidelines of engagement. If there is no such thing as a have to destroy the goal, Roadrunner-M can merely return to base and land at a pre-designated location for rapid refueling and reuse. If the goal does must be destroyed, Roadrunner-M will swiftly achieve this. In contrast to legacy missile techniques, you’ll be able to reuse all craft which are launched however not consumed. This radical shift in considering permits for large-scale defensive launches at terribly low value, rising redundancy for larger chance of lethality and enhancing the flexibility to concurrently have interaction many targets.
Roadrunner-M’s efficiency capability is much superior than competing air protection options and is already an overmatch functionality in opposition to present and rising threats. Its employment methodology considerably will increase the operator’s engagement resolution area which is critically constrained with present capabilities. Roadrunner-M improvements embody quicker launch and take-off timing, thrice the warhead payload capability, ten occasions the a method efficient vary, and is thrice extra maneuverable in G drive, in comparison with comparable choices available on the market. A single operator can launch and supervise a number of Roadrunner or Roadrunner-M squadrons. Roadrunner-M might be managed by Lattice, Anduril’s AI-powered software program suite for command and management, or be absolutely built-in into current air protection radars, sensors, and architectures to supply instantly deployable functionality.
Roadrunner is able to deploy as we speak and Anduril will likely be constantly iterating on this know-how for army forces world wide. Roadrunner went from a serviette sketch to an operationally validated and fieldable resolution in lower than two years, which is far quicker than most conventional protection contractor timelines. Anduril makes use of its personal cash for analysis and growth, which suggests it could possibly outpace rivals and ship operationally prepared capabilities inside a fraction of ordinary timeframes.
With a observe document for automating the operations of 1000’s of robotic techniques deployed in tactical environments globally, Anduril is a confirmed chief in growing and fielding built-in software program and {hardware} options throughout a variety of first and third-party sensors, effectors, and belongings in all domains.
