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Anduril Industries launches Armory, a new defense-tech e-commerce platform. Palmer Luckey's $61 billion defense startup wants to sell drones and autonomous weapons systems the way you'd buy enterprise software online 2 hours ago Sponsored: CryptoSlots - Cryptoslots Play now! Anduril Industries, the defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey in 2017, has launched a platform called Armory that lets military buyers browse and purchase drones, sensors, and electromagnetic warfare systems through what is essentially a defense-tech e-commerce site. The platform represents a deliberate attempt to modernize how the Pentagon and its allies actually buy weapons, a process historically defined by multi-year procurement cycles, mountains of paperwork, and the kind of bureaucratic friction that makes renewing your driver's license look efficient. What Armory actually sells. The Armory platform lists several of Anduril's core product lines, including the Wisp and Spyglass sensor systems and the Ghost-X unmanned aerial vehicle. These aren't hypothetical products sitting in a pitch deck. They're hardware that Anduril is actively manufacturing and delivering to military customers. Anduril filed a trademark application for "Anduril Armory" on April 10, 2026, covering retail services and platform-based sales of defense products. The filing laid the legal groundwork for what the company clearly had been planning for months: a direct digital sales channel designed to cut through traditional procurement bottlenecks. Beyond just listing products, Armory is designed to build and maintain supplier relationships. Anduril isn't just trying to sell its own gear. It's positioning itself as a hub that could eventually connect the broader defense supply chain, turning a product catalog into something closer to a marketplace. The timing is deliberate. Anduril closed a massive $5 billion Series H funding round in May 2026, pushing the company's valuation to $61 billion. The capital infusion gives Anduril the runway to bet big on initiatives like Armory while simultaneously scaling its hardware production. The news moving money, markets, and the world - before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. The manufacturing backbone behind the storefront. The company's Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio has begun production of the Fury, also designated the YFQ-44A, Anduril's first autonomous combat aircraft. Production reportedly started ahead of the original July target. At full capacity, Arsenal-1 is designed to produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems annually. Underlying all of this hardware is ArsenalOS, a software layer Anduril revealed in June 2026. The operating system is designed to support manufacturing processes from initial design through final production. Why this matters for defense procurement. Armory is Anduril's bet that defense procurement can be modernized the same way enterprise software sales were modernized over the past two decades. Instead of sending a team of business development executives to navigate the Pentagon's labyrinthine acquisition process, Anduril is putting its product catalog online and letting potential buyers see what's available, what it costs, and how to get it. The $61 billion valuation suggests investors are buying the thesis. At that price, Anduril is valued more like a high-growth technology company than a traditional defense contractor, reflecting a bet that the company's software-driven approach to weapons manufacturing and sales will capture a meaningful share of the US defense budget, which runs north of $800 billion annually. Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how Crypto Briefing create and review content, see its Editorial Policy.

What is a Collaborative Combat Aircraft and why is the Air Force betting big on them? John T. Seward is joined by Analiese Rutter of Lockheed Martin's CCA program and Jason Levin, senior vice president of engineering at Anduril Industries, whose companies showed off their designs at this year's Air, Space and Cyber Conference. Source: The Washington Times

Defence firm Anduril hit by US delay on Taiwan arms sales. Saturday, 19 September 2026 - 13:41 US defence tech firm Anduril's founder Palmer Luckey said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he has discussed this with Trump. The $14 billion package for Taiwan has been awaiting Trump's approval for months. After a May summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he was holding it in abeyance and described it as a "very good negotiating chip". China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own, an assertion Taipei rejects. The issue of Taiwan is likely to be high on Xi's agenda when he meets Trump in Washington next week. Speaking to reporters in Taipei where he attended a defence forum with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, Luckey said he did not know the status of the arms package. "It's definitely affecting the business in that our business with Taiwan would be in a different place if you had that $14 billion moving forward," he said, declining to give details about what was being delayed for the company. Drones reshape warfare. Anduril, whose Altius drone is used by Taiwan, has become one of Silicon Valley's hottest defence bets as drones reshape warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East and Trump pushes the Pentagon to adopt cutting-edge technologies to counter China. Luckey, whom China sanctioned in December for selling weapons to Taiwan, said one of the problems in delaying the package was that it had a broader, longer-lasting impact. "It's that as long as that's stuck, you don't have continued forward progress in other areas," he said. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside office hours. China has repeatedly told the US to stop selling weapons to Taiwan and has sanctioned numerous US companies that sell arms to the island. The US is bound by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, though Trump has called that commitment into question. Luckey said he had discussed the issue of Taiwan arms sales with Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He said the administration was open to hearing from people on the issue but aware of the fallout that could come from selling more weapons to Taiwan, such as China using its leverage with rare earths crucial for tech companies. "And so I've heard people say, shouldn't he just approve the deal and damn the consequences? But he's getting briefed by other people who are not me, and they're saying, 'If you do this, here's what's going to happen to American consumers'," Luckey said. "He has to weigh all of those things. He's in a really difficult, difficult situation," Luckey added, referring to Trump. Lai, who shook hands with Luckey at the forum's start, has made drones a central part of Taiwan's military modernisation. Last year, Taiwan unveiled its first missile to be jointly made with a US company, Anduril's Barracuda-500, an autonomous, low-cost cruise missile.