Anduril shows off new weapons for its Fury ‘fighter drone’

Anduril Industries has released new imagery showing weapons fit checks on its FQ-44 Fury aircraft, indicating the U.S. Air Force’s newest uncrewed fighter could carry a range of air-to-ground munitions once it enters full production.

Anduril captioned the release “Fit for Fury,” adding that the notional configurations “confirm Fury’s compatibility with a range of munitions.”

Two Anduril executives, Jason Levin, senior vice president for air dominance and strike, and Erin Simpson, vice president for strategy for air dominance and strike, told reporters at the Air, Space and Cyber Symposium that the company has already begun integration and fit checks of 227 kg (500-pound) Joint Direct Attack Munitions, 113 kg (250-pound) Small Diameter Bombs, and low-cost cruise missiles on the aircraft. Pods for 7 cm (2.75-inch) guided or unguided rockets have also been fitted to the airframe, according to imagery reviewed by The War Zone.

The Fury, previously designated YFQ-44A during its prototype phase, is one of two aircraft the Air Force selected in April 2024 for the first increment of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, alongside General Atomics’ YFQ-42A. The program is meant to pair uncrewed, semi-autonomous fighters with crewed aircraft such as the F-22 and F-35, extending their sensor coverage and weapons capacity without adding more cockpits to the fight. The Air Force has said it could order between 100 and 150 aircraft under the program’s first phase, though it has not disclosed how many, if any, will be FQ-44s specifically versus YFQ-42As.

Anduril’s aircraft traces its design back to Fury, a concept originally developed by Blue Force Technologies, which Anduril acquired in 2023. The YFQ-44A completed ground testing at Beale Air Force Base in 2025 and made its first flight later that year from Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California. The Air Force selected Anduril for the program’s production phase in June 2026, moving Fury from prototype status toward an initial batch of production aircraft intended to support further testing and eventual fielding. The Air Force has not disclosed the value or size of that production order.

The newly shown weapons integration work addresses one of the central questions about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program: what the drones will actually carry into combat. Until now, most public discussion of CCA aircraft has centered on their role as sensor platforms and force multipliers flying alongside crewed fighters, rather than on their specific strike capabilities. The range of munitions shown on Fury, spanning guided bombs, smaller precision weapons, cruise missiles and rocket pods, suggests the Air Force is testing the aircraft against a broad set of potential strike missions rather than a single narrow role.