Anduril has unveiled notional air-to-ground loadouts for its FQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft, signalling a move beyond an air-to-air role. The imagery shows the autonomous jet configured with 500-pound-class guided bombs, Small Diameter Bombs, low-cost cruise missiles, rocket pods and targeting pods, although the company has only carried out fit checks and integration work so far.
The disclosure came alongside imagery shared during the Air, Space and Cyber Conference, adding to the public profile of Fury as one of the U.S. Air Force’s Increment 1 Collaborative Combat Aircraft. The programme is intended to field semi-autonomous wingmen that can operate with crewed fighters such as the F-35 and future F-47, with service leaders pushing for a larger CCA fleet and at least 500 aircraft in service by 2032.
Fury had already completed its first live-fire AMRAAM test in July 2026, but no captive-carry or live-release testing of the air-to-ground weapons has been confirmed. That leaves the latest configurations as an early indicator of how Anduril may broaden the aircraft’s mission set into a more flexible autonomous strike platform for distributed combat operations.