Anduril Unveils Attack Drone

Anduril Industries, the controversial defense tech startup created by Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, has built an autonomous attack drone. But it's less Tom Brady, more Pats' secondary. Known as the Interceptor, the kamikaze drone autonomously strikes other drones—day or night—at 200 mph or more.

Anduril's already shipped dozens of Interceptors to government clients and is building hundreds more. Some are even headed for conflict zones, Businessweek reported.

The company is also in talks to supply commercial customers with lots of exposed physical assets (like oil and gas companies). Luckey is probably thinking of Saudi Aramco, which was struck by drones last month.

As tech firms avoid controversial Pentagon contracts, Anduril chases them

In Silicon Valley, you don't hear many companies tell potential employees, "You are signing up to build weapons." Anduril literally tells that to recruits. It's worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border with virtual surveillance tech, and it's worked on Maven, the AI drone imagery processing project that Google didn't renew after employee backlash.