A model of Fury on show at Anduril's stand at the 2025 Paris Air Show.
LE BOURGET—Anduril has teamed up with Germany’s Rheinmetall to co-develop and potentially co-produce autonomous air vehicles and munitions, as the U.S.-based company starts exploring international interest in the Fury autonomous combat aircraft.
The strategic partnership gives Anduril a local champion to develop European variants of the Fury, which is the baseline aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft, and the Barracuda family of precision munitions designed for low-cost operations.
“Together with Rheinmetall, we’re building systems that can be produced quickly, deployed widely, and adapted as NATO missions evolve,” Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said June 18.
Anduril displayed the YFQ-44 on its Paris Air Show exhibit stand as the company looks to develop international sales for the high-supersonic, autonomous aircraft.
“We're open to all different arrangements of international collaboration while working hand in hand with the Air Force on this,” said Jason Levin, Anduril’s senior vice president of engineering.
The Air Force plans to operate the first increment of CCAs for the air-to-air mission, but international derivatives of the Fury can be adapted to other roles.
“Since it's modular, other mission systems and other capabilities could be added for air-to-ground and air to surface,” Levin said.
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