Pictured is what Anduril calls a full-scale representation of its Fury offering for the first increment of CCA.
Anduril Industries is offering its Barracuda and Fury air vehicles to Europe through a partnership with Germany’s Rheinmetall, which will provide its digital platform that will integrate the autonomous air systems, the companies said on June 18.
The strategic partnership also includes Anduril’s solid rocket motor capabilities for potential use in Europe.
The two companies are already partnering to provide their respective counter-drone capabilities for solutions offerings, and on the U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program.
The latest collaboration includes a European variant of Anduril’s Fury multi-mission Group 5 autonomous air vehicle (AAV) the California-based company is developing for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program to operate with advanced manned aircraft.
The other AAV in the partnership is Anduril’s turbojet-powered Barracuda low-cost, expendable, multi-mission AAVs that comes in four different size and payload packages, including a munitions variant. Barracuda is designed for mass production.
The companies said the systems will be jointly developed and produced, and will include local suppliers and partners throughout Europe.
“This is a different model of defense collaboration, one built on share production, operational relevance, and mutual respect for sovereignty,” Brian Schimpf, Anduril’s CEO, said in a statement. “Together with Rheinmetall, we’re building systems that can be produced quickly, deployed widely, and adapted as NATO missions evolve.”
Rheinmetall this year premiered its Battlesuite digital platform that it bills as a central hub for “interconnecting all actors and systems.” Battlesuite is based on an operating system called Tactical Core developed by Germany’s blackned GmbH that Rheinmetall expands with applications to integrate its products and those of its strategic partners.
A version of this story originally appeared in affiliate publication Defense Daily.