The week of April 5, Anduril delivered the first YFQ-44A Fury to the USAF Experimental Operations Unit at Edwards AFB. Days later, EOU maintainers — not test pilots — ran a full sortie: launch, recover, in-flight retasking, the works. That’s the Air Force quietly taking the leash off Anduril’s robot wingman.
The hardware
Fury is Anduril’s bid in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program — a fully autonomous fighter sized to fly with F-35s and the future NGAD. Production-track airframe, jet-powered, cheap enough to lose and smart enough not to. No remote pilot in a trailer, no human stick. The jet taxis, takes off, flies the mission, and comes home on its own.
The control surface is a laptop
Ground control is one ruggedized laptop running Anduril’s Menace-T C4 software. From it, an operator uploads the mission plan, triggers autonomous taxi and takeoff, retasks the jet in flight, and pulls post-flight telemetry. No console, no joystick, no pilot rating.
That’s why EOU put a maintainer on the keys after a few days of training. Defense News, The Aviationist, Air & Space Forces, SOFREP have hammered the same point all month: CCA isn’t a slide deck anymore.
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