Billionaire Palmer Luckey Unveils Jet-Powered VTOL Kamikaze Drone, by Tyler Durden

I don’t know why you’d call a drone a “roadrunner,” which is essentially a ground-bound bird, but the technology is cool. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is positioning Anduril Industries, his Southern California startup defense firm, to challenge military-industrial complex giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics. 

Luckey revealed on X that Anduril Industries has developed an affordable vertical takeoff and landing drone that can be reused on surveillance or kamikaze missions.

Anduril told Forbes that the US Special Operations Command signed a $12.5 million contract last year for the autonomous jet-powered drone called “Roadrunner. “

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