Anduril seems to have an interest in economy of scale, so outdoing DJI in production would make sense as one of their goals, ultimately replacing them (who thought being reliant on ideological enemies of democracy was a good idea?).
@@toasteroven6761there wouldn't be ideological enemies of democracy if democracy would stay in its own lane and stop being evangelical and push for color revolution everywhere
@@toasteroven6761"ideological enemies of democracy". With all due respect you cannot possibly think the American MIC cares about democracy, freedom or justice or whatever. They're the people that took down Alliende and installed far-right juntas all across South America. These people are no different just because they are private, in fact they're worse. What they created is slaughterbots and let's hope you will never see these things in action.
@@toasteroven6761 As cool as it would be to see, there's no way Anduril would out-produce DJI in quadcopters. Not a dig against them or their ability to manufacture. They just wouldn't be able to sell millions of quads every year like DJI does.
@@alomejorquenoexactly, people act like drones and their fpv counterparts are something that have only existed for a few years. What's changed is off the shelf parts have become easier to make and sell. A lot of people probably don't know you can make your own open source drone swarm using hobbyist parts and software if you have deep enough pockets. You absolutely DON'T have to use DJI, etc if you don't want to, however most people prefer a plug and play experience.
Well you better be for how much these things cost... A Ukrainian fpv costs 320usd. Now idk about this one but a switchblade 300 costs 60k usd. Meaning for every switchblade 300 you can deploy 200 Ukrainian fpv's. And they're far simpler to manufacture in a constrained economy. You do the math.
@@mysterioanonymous3206these will be priced "in the low tens of thousands of dollars" according to Anduril. Orders of magnitude more expensive than similar products, prohibitively so. That being said, it can communicate with other battlefield elements like missiles, fighters or other drones, and it can also automatically attack a selected target if connection is lost with the user, something commercials drones cannot do. I don't think it's worth 50-100 regular fpv drones, not to Ukraine anyway. I'm sure the US will probably spend a few billion on these for their forces though.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 to be honest the future even for rich country. like the US that can print money .. is cheap fast massive fpv. okay with that AI stuff you need less human ressource. but if you have fewer FPV or AAV whatever you will have less ressources anyway because they will all die. Rather have a lot of FPV that protect my military men. Because I can't replace my men
It would be cool if it could just separate and drop the explosive load at the last minute and recover the drone. That camera and electronics seems expensive to kamikaze them every time.
Drones have been used in military operations for like...20 years now. All these MIC contractors are doing is using off the shelf parts that have been available for a few years now. The hardest part is the HE charge used for kamikaze aspect. If the ingredients to make HE were easier to get, everyone would be making this. This is simply a DJI drone with a pound of C4 strapped to the underbelly and a detonator. Since the components of HE are all heavily regulated (like certain drug precursors for making things such as LSD) it would be impossible to acquire a meaningful amount as a civilian for offensive use. Maybe one could make a single unit or two for assassination purposes, but large scale acquisitions would require getting through all the red tape of the supply chain. Obviously a defense contractor has no issue with that problem.
Unlike some of Anduril's other showings, this one actually has a ton of existing, battle-tested market competition from Ukraine's own drone factories. I wonder how it stacks up in performance and cost.
this is not an FPV drone, doesn't need a specialized pilot giving it every command, it's mainly autonomous with little input. Not the case with ukranian smaller drones. They're piloted drones. of course it'll be way more expensive
Especially this. Everyone can make cool hype video's, but how much does this bad boy cost per unit? Can it stack up against a cheap DJI of a Ukraine homemade one?
@@bzipoli This significantly lowers the barriers to entry from a skill standpoint. Absolutely worth additional cost. Ukraine's defenders are very skilled, but those skills take a lot of time to replace if they're lost. This thing can be used by any moderately intelligent 1LT in the field.
@@Desalnietteminimaal 23k per SKU for the drone, + you're able to reuse the remote but in Ukraine case Typical cost of a single FPV drone is $300-600 before the ability to detonate not very cost effective on our par, but hey what do i know
lithium batteries can cause quite the fragmentation. not to mention the fact that when the lithium hits the atmospheric oxygen it burns at like 2000*C another lovely little perk to those on the receiving end
@@SHERMA. The Lithium content in a lithium-ion battery is only some 2 to 3% of the battery's weight. A mid- to larger sized consumer drone's battery is somewhere in the 300g to 500g so we're talking only 7g to 12g of Lithium. Lithium is used as a charge carrier in the battery's cathode. There won't be much fragmentation with Lithium. The explosion damage shown in the video is 99.99+% from on-board high explosives such as TNT, Semtex, RDX. It looks like some ball bearings are wrapped around the explosive charge to create shrapnel. That is a typical explosives design.
@@beyondfossil actually its more like 7% in european, north american and chinese lithium ion batteries. and the majority of the rest of battery is graphite, aluminium, copper and cobalt. all of which... goes without saying are dense materials for the most part that do nothing but aid the deadly effects of the explosive. even tho the lithium content is 7% i advise you to go watch RUS infantry destroyed by UKR drones. ive watched 1000's of clips and the 2000*C lithium manages to lodge itself either inside the infantry or inside the clothes of the infantry and causes horrific fires as it reacts with the atmosphere. believe it or not the reason lithium-ion batterys are so sensitively monitored on things such as planes or cargo ships is because of how violently they react when they touch the atmosphere. you could throw frags near a car all day and you would struggle to cause a fire with the shrapnel damage. explode a drone with its lithium ion battery on the other hand and 10% of the fragmentation burns at 2000*C and causes fires in car dashboards or trenches etc
@@beyondfossil its actually more like 7% which is way enough to get itself lodged in car dashboards or infantry clothing and plate carriers go watch UKR RUS drone footage and you can see the after effects of the lithium
Terrifying. Definitely the skies wouldn't be safe. I knew development of these would happen, if you don't do it somebody else would, no matter how unsafe or unethical it is, I greatly dislike what its happening. I guess the only thing we can do is push more accountability for these technologies, since these wouldn't be the last to be developed. Deadly swarms will probably be developed, as most of my predictions have come true. Accountability is the only thing I can think of keeping it on the rails.
@@TheManinBlack9054 We should always cheer for weapons that prevent people from being put in harms way. There's zero downside. The only people this has a downside for are enemies, which is the point. No weapons are planned to be deployed with AI able to carry out independent attacks. There's always a human performing any engagement action and there always will be.
@@TheManinBlack9054 And you're a coward who'd rather sit back and let fascists win. Things are accelerating at very fast pace towards a very bad war you either want to prepare for that war or you want to live under a rock.
This is an 18-pound, fully capable RSTA (Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition) airborne platform, designed to be cheap, quickly reproducible, and deployable, fundamentally changing modern power projection. It can execute mission packages independently without requiring traditional support like air support, artillery, or guided missiles. Another key advantage is its short training cycle, allowing newly enlisted personnel to quickly master its operation. With AI-assisted systems and precision ordnance delivery, this system represents a major advancement in efficient, scalable warfare.
@@MrNoipe you're joking, or being sarcastic, right? Probably $500-$2K max. I know you're just joking, or just being sarcastic. For sure. You definitely are.
I suspect a laser with an object tracking camera could easily fry the image sensor on the drone. Or a basic radio jammer could interrupt its communication. Or a faster counter drone could drop a net on it. Bolt certainly has it's uses, but there are many inexpensive and low tech defenses against such drones. Maybe next gen military bases will be built inside Topgolf nets 🤣
China cannot compete against the US in any scenario when comes to military technology, the US doesn't lead the commercial drones because they aren't interested in this market, if they were really interested they would be leading the market by a large margin.
What’s still missing in military drones is a palm-sized quadcopter acting as an anti-personnel round-similar to the 'Slaughterbots' video from the DUST youtube channel video 5 years ago. It’d be great if drones like the Bolt-M could mark targets, sync them into battlefield systems like Anduril’s LATTICE, and launch those tiny loitering munitions to eliminate enemy personnel from a short distance away (roughly 25 minutes away like the Black Hornet Drone). Even better if these mini-drones could deploy directly from a soldier’s MOLLE backpack webbing without any manual action. Every solider would be able to strap on about 6 of those mini drones to their backpack (or 12 if engineered to be double stacked). Each of those mini drones would probably weigh 30 to 100 grams, so that's about 1.3 pounds of additional weight for 6 of those mini drones (assuming 100g each).
to see military industrial complex marketing the first dji drone airburst is absolutely insane. This one feels different, and really highlights the reality of things out there now and how terrifying it is.
China cannot compete against the US in any scenario when comes to military technology, the US doesn't lead the commercial drones because they aren't interested in this market, if they were really interested they would be leading the market by a large margin.
With the Countering CCP Drones act the consumer / first responder / commercial market is WIDE open. If you can dominate the military sector like this, non military drones should be a walk in the park. As a proud American, I would fly a civilian Anduril quad without hesitation.
Exactly. They could churn out civilian drones in their planned 'Arsenal' factory to compete with DJI and then just flip a switch to make these as needed.
Okay, I know this company is in kahoots with the military industrial complex but that slow motion detonation of that drone on that truck was fucking sick
"is in kahoots with the MIC" you know they sell weapons, right? what did you expect? their catalog in mainly weaponry and AI systems for the battlefield was this a surprise for someone? a weapons company working with the military?
@@rickjames18 exactly what the words describe; America's military industrial capabilities. As in, the companies that make shit; Raytheon, lockmart, etc
Who do you mean when you say we? Americans? You think the american military gives a shit about americans? The national guard just abandoned america in a time of serious crisis, when a quarter of the country is left in shambles, they went on to start wars on behalf of a different country, whose ethnicity rules over you and has nothing but contempt for you. Honestly, by now, its hard to blame them.
@@gehstur7150 You have zero concept of the real world and probably get all your news from Russian trolls on twitter well either that or you're a Russian troll. Also you appear to be a rascist anti-semite so you're opinion is worth less than the toilet paper the national guard is delivering. FEMA is giving people upwards of 50k or better for the damages so don't say shit about we're not doing anything but, then you're one of those people who would complain about that too.
what a cool looking drone, Air burst munitions and coming at you with speed out of the blue could have a terrible effect on a squad with little time to take cover. Who would ever wont to be grunt in the modern era
This looks cool, but I'm reminded of DJI drones (with Anduril software). I appreciate that these vertical takeoff drones 1) don't require a runway to take off & 2) are lower cost than the drones that require a runway.
There are anti-drone measures, but they are unwieldy and more costly than the drone. Otherwise if you're a master with a shotgun and actively vigilant during all your exposed outings, maybe you'll get lucky.
@@MadPutz You will hear one before you see one. You hear, you move, maybe bird shot instead on 00. That luck thing made me think of the Mossad motto...
@@gurmiro if it has a DJI-similar pattern gimbal, installing an aftermarket camera won't be a problem (+ i don't really want 4k camera tbh, I'd much rather have an actual military-esque FLIR drone)
This is literally a Rainbow Six Seige character in real life, which is cool. And as cool as that is, I would not want that thing aimed at me. Terrifying stuff.
This is basically just a standard DJI drone with a bomb strapped to it. It's good to know that such a weapon could be built by anyone with basic chemistry and programming skills! 🔥
@@farzana6676 They do. They go even further than 20km. The obstacles and contested frequency bands are the problem, something that Anduril won't tell you on a commercial lol.
Good, solving over-reliance with DJI should be a priority. Handheld drones have been the future of warfare and, uncomfortably, a Chinese company currently is the largest provider of such game-changers.
HOLY... SO COOL..❤ I just want one of these. Not for combat, but for hobby use. Please sell it for hobby use too. Just take out the self-destruct function.
You should have a dedicated department solely for battery research and manufacturing high energy density batteries for higher range and control instead of relying on Third party battery manufacturers like CATL etc.
Anduril is not large enough to do that. Tesla should be leading on that front. Tesla has the resources and they also have the motive to achieve high energy density.
Loved the video and all the capabilties...exactly what we need in the US. I predict we'll need a palm-sized version for taking out individual infantry men who are spread out or just travelling in teams of 2. Something like what's in the "Slaughterbots" video on the DUST channel. A larger version would also be cool to see...something that can carry the explosive power of a 155mm High Explosive Round.
is there a laser designator version? or maybe a narrow beam forming coms relay/control node version to fly outside of jamming range and guide/control other drones that have to go into GPS jamming range?-- just spitballin indeas.
That truck is a hilux, it’ll start right back up. Yepppppp ahhh 🤦🏾♂️🥳 Jokes aside, amazing video and product demo. Love it and love your work. Thank you for your support and innovations 🇺🇸
It says there are three different payloads. Anti personnel, anti material, and anti armor. So I’d expect something, maybe not enough against a tank though.
when a 7>incher like the quad in the video is flying like 50-100 meters above in the video its basically not audible. then again this isnt really meant for stealthy tracking they have other products for that.. this is the kill vehicle
I honestly don't see how this is any different from what DJI can offer. I know lots of things listed here are not available in DJI drones but it's still achievable. Thats not mentioning FPVs, which are in different league. Point is, this one really didn't solve anything
lol, what video were you watching? autonomous track and strike in a GPS denied environment... EW jammer isn't gonna mess up this drone. And, it doesn't take an expert FPV pilot to fly. Yes, this is in a different league above manual & GPS drones.
Looks like a lot of excess plastic and unnecessary folding mechanisms for something designed to explode on its target... It can have all the cool functionality in the world, if it costs more than 1000$ it's going to be irrelevant. Ditch the fancy housings and make the arms socket into place instead of fancy hinges. This is a fancy grenade, not a pod racer.
When they described it as having a payload I expected it to be a drop style drone, not a kamikaze drone... I don't see why anyone would pay money the sort of money they'll ask for this when some kid with hobby grade equipment can perform the same function for much much less xD
It seems like it's meant to be recon until the munition is needed. My guess is that it's reasonable price for a high-end recon drone and if you need the munition functionality then the cost of the drone is a small price to pay for eliminating a much more expensive target. It also has an optimized system to maximize chance of success rather than just letting a bomb free-fall or manually flying it it. It's basically a recon drone where you have the choice on any given mission to pay tens of thousands of dollars to eliminate a target if it's deemed worthwhile.
As freakishly awesome as this platform is, I think i would be more impressed if this unit was capable of delivering a payload to a target in a dive bomb fashion without being single use. Automated high speed dropping with say two payloads would be so much more cost effective. As someone who has personally built and flown FPV uavs in combat, I know what the cost per payload is - and I can guarantee its 1/10 the cost of this unit
Yeah but then you cut the range in half. Part of the sell is being able to use its full range to attack a target. Though I would agree adding in the option wouldn’t hurt.
@@Greene362 Once you drop the munition flight time will go up a little but, still if it can only fly 20 minutes out then come back and it saves you $20k or more that's worth it I'd imagine. Plus the logistics of it, supply chain is going to have a hard time keeping up in the event we were trying to have one person send 20+ of these out in a day which is not unreasonable to expect ignoring the cost implications at least.
I’d like to see the drone propellers self attached to the body not requiring a self set up. Maybe even spring loaded so they can be launched off a AV and flown.
