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Anduril leadership have confirmed that their Fury autonomous fighter jet would only be limited by the agreed targeting policy of the Australian government.
The high-performance, multi-mission autonomous fighter jet was displayed for the first time outside of the USA at the Avalon Australian International Airshow 2025 last week.
Fury is designed to act as a force multiplier for crewed fighter aircraft, combining trusted collaborative autonomy, hyper-scale producibility, modularity, and affordability to expand the ability of US and allied forces to project combat airpower. In addition, the aircraft is designed to work with a commercially available engine as well as Anduril’s autonomous software.
Anduril Industries president and chief strategy officer Christian Brose, speaking with Defence Connect at the air show, confirmed there had been significant interest in the aircraft.
“We’re super excited about the reception and I wouldn’t just focus on the aircraft. The other priority has really been what we call mission autonomy and how we think about the underlying sort of software and intelligence that’s making that aircraft something fundamentally different,” he said.
“The ability to operate multiple systems simultaneously with a single commander and change that ability to very flexibly and adaptively add new software capability, new behaviours … I would argue is even more important than the aircraft.
“It is an autonomous system, which means that you can provide it sort of commander’s intent and then it has the ability to then organise itself or tasks for it to perform.
“(Targeting) that’s a policy decision and that’s something that governments are going to have to decide as a matter of governmental policy. But as builders of technology, we’re focused on providing the capability for them to be able to operate in the way that they want to in accordance with their laws and policies.
“Our belief as a company is that the ultimate decision about use of violence, use of force is ultimately always going to have to remain a human decision.”
Brose, elaborating on the modular design of the Fury, said the vehicles should be considered similar to an “empty truck” in regard to rapid-change capability.
“The focus is because of how fast this technology is changing specifically on the software and the payload side, you have to be open and modular by design or you’ll be irrelevant from a software perspective,” he said.
“Everything about the software is adaptable and changeable. You can build directly on top of the lattice for mission, autonomy, software platform, new applications, new algorithms for sensor processing, and that can be done here in Australia.
“On the payload side, the ability to mount different payloads on it is very straightforward and easy, and the aircraft was designed with that purpose in mind … But the ability to very easily snap on different sensors to mount different weapons, it’s kind of a limitless opportunity in that regard and the ability to do it is quite fast.
“There’s not an internal payload bay. So if you want to put weapons on it … The logical place you’re doing that is on hard points, which also opens up a lot of space in terms of the kinds of weapons that you could integrate onto the aircraft. However, sensors and systems could also be internally carried.”
Anduril Australia executive chairman and CEO David Goodrich OAM, speaking to Defence Connect at Avalon, confirmed that the Fury was pitched to Australia as a domestically produced product.
“In Australia, we see the acceptance that there is value in manned and unmanned teaming through platforms working together,” he said.
“We’re a long way away from a decision as to whether or not manufacturing happens in Australia. But we’re manufacturing Ghost Shark in Australia … Three years ago we promised that we would produce three Ghost Sharks in three years. We meet those promises. We meet them ahead of schedule and we meet them on budget.
“So there’s absolutely no reason why we cannot foresee a similar program … Subject to export approval from the United States government to manufacture all kinds of capabilities in Australia.”
