Anduril's first Fury aircraft rolled off the production line at the defense contractor's Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio.
Fury is Anduril’s semi-autonomous fighter aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force. In June, the Air Force selected Anduril to move the FQ-44 into production. According to Anduril, the Fury production line at Arsenal-1 is capable of producing up to 150 aircraft annually in its current configuration.
Anduril began Fury production work at Arsenal-1 in March, three months ahead of the company’s original target to begin manufacturing in July. Completion of the first aircraft on July 27 fulfills the public timeline Anduril set when it announced the project on Jan. 16, 2025. In an industry where new aircraft factories routinely take three to five years to move from announcement to first delivery, Anduril and Ohio did it in less than two — announcing, permitting, constructing, equipping, hiring for and producing the first aircraft at Arsenal-1 in 18 months.
“Our job at One Columbus is to bring the right partners to the table and help clear the path for companies ready to make transformative investments,” said Jonas Peterson, chief economic development officer and president of One Columbus. “Securing Arsenal-1 demanded close coordination among partners across the Region. The first Fury rolling off the line 557 days after the announcement shows what that alignment can deliver.”
At full buildout, Arsenal-1 is planned as a five-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing campus on 500 acres near Rickenbacker International Airport, with runway access for testing and development. Anduril has committed $910.5 million in capital investment and 4,008 new production and service jobs by 2035. The project represents the largest single job creation and new payroll project in Ohio history.
“This moment belongs to the people who spent years preparing Pickaway County for an opportunity of this scale and to the Anduril team that moved with urgency from day one,” said Pickaway County Commissioner Jay Wippel. “Arsenal-1 will create thousands of jobs, help local businesses grow and open new career paths for people across our community.”
Arsenal-1 is designed to manufacture multiple autonomous systems at high volume for the United States and its allies. Anduril has said the completed campus will have the capacity to produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems.
“Arsenal-1 was an ambitious commitment to build faster, create thousands of jobs, and strengthen America’s defense, serving as an example of why Ohio is the No. 1 state for business,” said JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef.” Today’s milestone shows Anduril and Ohio are delivering: With initial production ahead of schedule and the first Fury complete within the original timeline, Ohio is positioned to support the next generation of advanced aerospace and defense manufacturing at scale."
