Anduril Industries, a private U.S. defense company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, previously founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, have announced Roadrunner, a “Twin-Turbojet VTOL Autonomous Air Vehicle (AAV)”.
Roadrunner is a reusable, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), operator-supervised Autonomous Air Vehicle (AAV) with twin turbojet engines and modular payload configurations that can support a variety of missions.
Roadrunner-M is a high-explosive interceptor variant of Roadrunner built for ground-based air defense that can rapidly launch, identify, intercept, and destroy a wide variety of aerial threats — or be safely recovered and relaunched at near-zero cost.
Here is Anduril’s home page.
Roadrunner enters a market segment with one well-established and indefatigable competitor.
