Anduril pitches autonomous "loyal wingman" aircraft to pair with Poland's incoming F-35s
Fury and Thunder would make Poland Anduril's first European operator of these autonomous platforms, building on an existing cruise-missile partnership with Polish state defense firm PGZ.
At Poland's MSPO defense trade show, Anduril pitched two autonomous platforms on September 9, 2026: Fury, a collaborative combat aircraft designed to pair with Poland's 32 incoming F-35s as a "loyal wingman," and Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft unveiled in July, intended to operate alongside the 96 Boeing AH-64E Apaches Poland begins receiving in 2028. The pitch builds on Anduril's existing Barracuda-500M cruise-missile partnership with Polish state defense firm PGZ, and would make Poland the company's first European operator of either platform.
Autonomous systems moving from US-only to NATO allies
Anduril's own positioning: "Fury is tailor-made to partner with an F-35 as a loyal wingman and force multiplier." The pitch matters less for its specifics than for the pattern -- a US autonomous-systems vendor expanding an existing relationship with a NATO ally's state defense industry, rather than selling only to the US military.
Why this belongs on a spend/tooling tracker at all
Defense-AI procurement is adjacent to, not central to, the enterprise AI spend this site otherwise tracks -- but a vendor moving from single-country to allied-nation deployment is a real expansion-of-scale signal, the same kind of growth trajectory worth watching in any AI vendor's customer base, defense or civilian.