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Anduril's first Fury — an autonomous wingman for the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program — is built at Arsenal 1, with the line designed to scale toward 150 aircraft a year.
Anduril has built the first Fury combat drone at its new Arsenal-1 plant in Pickaway County, Ohio, and says the line is designed to scale toward roughly 150 aircraft a year, making the first unit the opening of a production curve rather than a one-off milestone.
Fury is Anduril's entry in the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, the autonomous "wingman" effort meant to fly missions too dangerous for piloted aircraft, including air-to-air combat. Anduril previously won the CCA Increment 1 award, with General Atomics holding the parallel YFQ-42A line.
Local Ohio engineers and technicians traveled to California to train on Fury assembly before bringing the build back to Ohio, according to John Malone, Anduril's head of production for autonomous airpower and Fury, speaking on a Monday facility tour. Malone described the first airframe as the product of months of cross-discipline collaboration, with stumbles along the way, and pitched the aircraft as a force multiplier for missions too dangerous for pilots.
The roughly 150-aircraft-a-year figure is a company aspiration, not a demonstrated rate. The pace will depend on variables the local source does not answer: CCA program-of-record funding, where Anduril lands against General Atomics in the Increment 1 cohort, and how quickly the central Ohio workforce ramps. A first AIM-120 AMRAAM live-fire suggests the airframe is already moving down the test path.