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Barracuda
Autonomous Air Vehicle (AAV)
Product descripton: Barracuda by Anduril
Purpose-Built to Bring Mass to the Fight
Barracuda is a family of air-breathing Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) purpose-built for hyper-scale production and mass employment. Combining advanced software with a simplified design, Barracuda delivers a highly intelligent, low-cost, and flexible mission system.
Barracuda-M is the munition configuration of Barracuda that delivers a more affordable, producible, available, and adaptable cruise missile capability than existing options available to warfighters today.
Low-Cost, High-Volume – Designed for Agile Hyper-Scale Production
Designed from the ground-up for hyper-scale manufacturing, Barracuda production rates are designed to keep pace with the threat and can be doubled on-call to meet short-term surges in demand.
Build Qualities
Supply Chain Resiliency Built into Design
Barracuda leverages commercially and widely-available components across six common sub-systems.
Rapid Hardware Integration & Testing
Barracuda’s modular open systems architecture enables rapid integration and testing with the latest advancements in commercial sub-component technology to optimize mission systems against evolving threats.
Software-Defined Upgradeability
As a software-defined, hardware-enabled platform, Barracuda continuously adapts to mission needs at the speed of relevancy and enables novel autonomous behaviors such as collaborative mission autonomy.
Technical specifications
Barracuda-100
Barracuda-100 delivers class-leading maneuverability, range, and endurance in a compact form factor to unlock novel ground or air-launched concepts of operation for tactical applications.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Range | >120 nautical miles |
| Payload | ~40 lb — Kinetic, Others |
| Prospective Launch Platforms | Rotary- and Fixed-Wing Aircraft, Ground Vehicles, and Boats |
Barracuda-250
Barracuda-250 is optimized for operational utility across the joint force, supporting multiple payloads, platforms, and concepts of operation.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Range | >200 nautical miles (air), >150 nautical miles (ground) |
| Payload | ~35 lb — Kinetic, Others |
| Prospective Launch Platforms | Internal (F-35A/B/C, Bombers), External (F-15E, F-18E/F, F-16), Surface (MFOM, Surface Vessel) |
Barracuda-500
Barracuda-500 offers an affordable long-range mission system capable of mass production, load-out, and deployment.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Range | >500 nautical miles (air) |
| Payload | >100 lb — Kinetic, Others |
| Prospective Launch Platforms | Fighter (F-15E, F-18E/F, F-16), Palletized (Rapid Dragon, C-17, C-130) |
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