With his Hawaiian shirts, his bearded and his mule cup, Palmer Luckey, the founder of the American start-up Andundil Industries, upsets the defense industry even in his image. Created in 2017, when he was only 25 years old, his business has become the symbol of the digital and economic revolution of a sector shaken by the deployment of artificial intelligence (the initials of Anduril Industries are also the A and the I of Artificial Intelligence) and by the need to produce faster, in mass and at low costs to meet the requests of the States.
In eight years, Andundil has won several contracts with the Pentagon, including the development of an autonomous fighter plane, the Fury, exhibited for the first time in Europe at the Bourget show (Seine-Saint-Denis) which closes its doors on June 22. A few years ago, never an emblematic project would have escaped from Big Five Defense Americans (Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman and RTX). In 2024, Andundil already achieved $ 1 billion in turnover. And society is now targeting Europe.
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Source: Lemonde