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Billionaire Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Why He Only Flies Coach: “I don’t fly private and I do fly coach.” “[Anduril] only covers coach travel for employees… because we have so much travel at the company.” “If I’m going to ask my employees to do it, I need to do it too. Even when it’s my own money… otherwise I would literally be out of touch.” “I love the back of the plane, on the window. Nobody bothers you… you can let everybody get off the plane before you do.” “My grandpa was a pilot for United Airlines for over 40 years… I grew up around commercial airlines. To me there is a certain romanticism to mass-market air travel.” “And America did it. We figured out how to make it economically viable, and we build everyone else’s airplanes.”
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🚨 BREAKING: Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey Responds to President Trump’s New Restrictions on Defense Companies “These measures do apply to me. I now cannot pay dividends. I now cannot do stock buybacks, if I’m not investing in new [manufacturing] plants.” “[President Trump] isn’t anti-defense or anti-defense company, that’s for sure.” “I think that when you are effectively run on the public’s wallet, the public should be able to impose whatever restrictions they want on you.” “If they want to say that I only pay myself $5m until I’m caught up with my schedules, they should be allowed to do that.” “It’s even good to scare some people sometimes… You remember being a teenager? Your parents say: ‘You’re grounded until you bring up your grades... then we will talk.’” You don’t necessarily go to [defense companies] and say: ‘This is the way it’s going to be forever.’ You say: ‘This is how it’s going to be until you get your act together.’”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey: “A lot of people say: ‘I can’t believe Palmer named his company after something from the LOTR… Tolkien hated war.’” “Tolkien was not someone who was pro-war by any means… but he did believe in good and evil. He did believe in wars that needed to be fought.” “One of the interesting themes of [LOTR] is how the people who live far away from Mordor, they don’t believe that these monsters exist.” “And I think that describes a lot of Americans. You’ll talk to people that say: ‘I think that nobody’s truly evil, that nobody deserves to die.’” “There are a lot of people on the frontlines of conflicts who don’t have the luxury of that… Someone who’s looked evil in the eye can’t pretend it doesn’t exist.” Anduril, Flame of the West 🔥⚔️
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Looks like China is publicly announcing preparation for a blockade maneuver on Taiwan. The CCP is projecting strength because they are weak. The recent $11B U.S. weapons package to Taiwan, which included Anduril Altius drones, has the CCP spooked. 🇺🇸🇹🇼
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Drone Warfare: “I don’t think China is going to adopt drones the same way that you’ve seen heavy adoption in Russia and Ukraine.” “[China] has such an enormous surplus of single men… their calculus is just completely different.” The U.S. must avoid overlearning from the war in Ukraine and focus on building a war machine with the primary goal of deterring China. The deciding factor in a China conflict will be attritable mass with large stockpiles of missiles, combat aircraft and subsea systems. As Foreign Affairs notes, focusing too heavily on small drones risks losing our edge in the capabilities that actually dominate the Pacific.
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Reviving U.S. Naval Shipbuilding: “Remember how fast we built naval capacity in WWII, we stood it up inside of a year.” “We were cranking out many ships every single day.” “A lot of this is about an attitude adjustment… autonomy is the thing that enables you to build ships like that once again.” “[With autonomy] you can make a very different set of trades.” “1 out of 100 [autonomous] submarines failing due to manufacturing problems is just a cost to be managed on your balance sheet, rather than a human tragedy.” It’s time to rebuild the fleet with autonomy. 🇺🇸
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey Reveals His Political Plan to Beat China: “We can steal [China’s] very best manufacturing engineers, and put them to work here.” “During the Cold War we gave a lot of visas to people to immigrate here from hostile powers like the Soviet Union, if they were in a critical role in those countries.” “You basically said: you are one of the puzzle pieces that keeps everything held together for their missile program.” “Come over to the United States. We’ll give you a job at NASA. You’ll have an American life, it’ll be fantastic.” “There’s a lot of people [in China] who hate what China has become.” “Let’s haul over [China’s] best plant managers and have 1000 jobs created by each of those guys here in America.”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Russia and China’s Most Powerful Weapon: “Some of the stuff that Russia and China are doing, it’s as sci-fi as what the United States is doing.” “I’ve come to the conclusion that their most powerful weapon isn’t any bomb or missile or drone. It’s their ability to control people’s minds through propaganda.” “A lot of Russians that went to fight in Ukraine in the early days… they were told that the people of Ukraine want to be liberated, you’re gonna be a hero.” “When I was in Ukraine… there was this [Russian] attack helicopter wreck.” “The pilot’s go-bag… it had 3 or 4 days of water, 3 or 4 days of food, his dress uniform with dress shoes, and 50 condoms.” “And to me that speaks to how brainwashed this guy was… they were told there’s gonna be parades… he thought the women would be all over him, and he was gonna need 50 condoms for the post-war celebration.” “What I worry about is if China invades Taiwan, they’re gonna come up with a similar story.” “[The CCP] is gonna trick their people into thinking Taiwan wants to be reunified.”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey’s surprising view on the Future of Warfare: Interviewer: “Do you believe that Space will become the defining domain for 21st century national defense?” Palmer Luckey: “I think space is very important, but I think the subterranean domain will define the 21st century There’s more crust than air or sea or land... so a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to be a huge deal I have built working prototypes of this”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey Reveals the Hidden Risk of Chinese Hardware: “There were multiple times we discovered actual wiretap electronics in product samples that were given to us.” “The risks apply to everything that’s made with Chinese components… computers, servers, phones, drones.” “The Supermicro incident in the United States… certain server farms that had Chinese components smaller than a grain of rice… were stealing very sensitive information from the computer.” “How many [Chinese] computers exist in critical utilities and infrastructure and military? Millions, at least.” “How many of them are compromised by Chinese intelligence operations placing listening devices or false components in them?” “Surely they’re targeting every government, every military, and every company.” “I think it’s critical that countries, for their critical technologies… make sure they’re not built in China with Chinese components.”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on China’s Critical Threat Against the U.S. Military: “They’re building weapons that are sometimes better than ours, for a tenth of the price, and 100x the scale.” “The real power of the Chinese military is their ability to manufacture… unfortunately, right now they are very much on the right side of the equation.” “Anti-ship missiles are a huge concern… it’s very hard to defend against them. Even if you can defend against one, can you defend against 10? Can you defend against 100?” “When our aircraft carriers cost billions of dollars, you can justify throwing a lot of missiles at it and it still makes sense, from China’s perspective.” “I don’t think China’s gonna go for a Pearl Harbor. But what they probably could do is deny the U.S. Navy the ability to operate in any area that they make a priority… if [China] makes enough hypersonic anti-ship missiles.” “What happens is, not the destruction of the U.S. Navy, but the neutering of the U.S. Navy. We realize we can’t actually use [our ships], so they sit somewhere else, watching Taiwan get invaded.” “The United States has a lot of missiles that are excellent… but we don’t make enough of them.” “This is the Anduril mission problem… how do we do these things cheaper, better, and faster?” “This is why [Anduril] is investing in building missiles and missile systems. We need something like 100x more capacity than we currently have.” Rebuild The Arsenal. 🇺🇸
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey in Japan: “I’m hoping that someday we’re able to sell weapons to China.” “What the United States is doing and what Japan is doing, is trying to build a set of technologies and political positions that deter violence.” “If we do the right things, we can have Xi Jinping wake up tomorrow and say: ‘I’m not going to make a move [on Taiwan] today.’” “We need to make sure that he keeps saying that tomorrow and the next day and next year and next decade.” “[The CCP] don’t just believe that they deserve to have Taiwan. They want the Philippines. They want Korea. They want Japan. They want Vietnam.” “It’s important that we stop that in its tracks and hopefully make [China] part of the international community.” “I think the future is hopefully that all the superpowers get along and stop engaging in expansionist military action.” “We fought a world war with Japan and in one generation… they’re one of our strongest trade partners, military partners, and cultural partners.” “I don’t think there’s a reason you can’t imagine the same thing happening for a reformed China.” Peace Through Strength. 🇺🇸🕊️
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Hidden Crisis Facing the U.S. Military: “We forgot one of the most important lessons of WWII.” “[Today] we’re not designing weapons to be made by existing U.S. industry, but instead, designing weapons that can be made by what engineers know is possible in the ultimate limit, with unlimited money and time.” “[Anduril] is building torpedoes, submarines, and cruise missiles that are designed to be manufactured by the same [machines] and personnel that are currently making Ford F150s.” Remember how we won WWII… Rebuild The Arsenal. 🇺🇸
Anduril Appreciator591,750 views • 4 months ago

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Hidden Reason Behind His Choice of Facial Hair: “I have this goatee that I’ve been growing ever since I was fired [from Facebook]… coming up on 9 years now.” “I said I’m not going to shave it until certain conditions occur, and there were people who believed that those conditions would never occur.” “I’ve been cryptic about it and never said why… but I will let you know I have achieved those life goals.” “I’m not gonna tell you what’s going on in my personal life yet… but suffice to say, when the beard comes off, shit’s about to go down.” 2026 is shaping up to be a big year for Anduril (Arsenal-1 Factory, Fury mass-production). Will Palmer finally say goodbye to the goatee?
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Hidden Threat Facing the U.S. Military: “China would love to wipe out the American automotive industry… because it means we will never be able to fight a war against them.” “How did the United States win WWII? We took all our automotive factories… we had them building aircraft, weapons and missiles.” “China could win the kinetic war and the economic war with one move: out-competing our automotive industry.” “Anduril has to think about this all the time… we make 3 different Barracuda missiles. It can be made with 10 tools that all exist in every automotive plant.” “You could make this missile, at mass scale, in any GM facility… and that’s really important for us.” Rebuild The Arsenal. 🇺🇸
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Movies in the U.S. vs China: “October Sky… great movie about kids building rockets, hurting themselves doing it… if you made it today you’d get sued.” “That is not happening in China. Nobody is suing the people who are convincing kids to be aerospace engineers.” “Our culture is being destroyed by a pro-litigation, pro-nanny state approach.” “Have you seen Born to Fly? It’s one of [China’s] new mega propaganda pieces. The heroes are not fighter pilots; it’s the people designing and building their fighter jets.” “When people talk about how [China’s] movies are decades behind the United States, they forget that those movies are what convinced a generation to fight the Cold War and build the best technological superpower the world has ever seen.” Make 80s Movies Great Again. 🇺🇸
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Hidden Crisis facing the U.S. military: “We forgot one of the most important lessons of WW2” “[Today] we’re not designing weapons to be made by existing U.S. industry but instead designing weapons by what engineers know is possible in the absolute limit”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the U.S. vs China War Over Taiwan: “The United States exhausts its arsenal of precision munitions in a mere 8 days… this is the war U.S. military analysts fear most.” “China has the world’s largest Navy, the world’s largest ground force, and the world’s largest missile arsenal, with production capacity growing every single day.” “We’ll never meet China’s numerical advantage through traditional means… we need autonomous weapons that can be produced at scale, deployed rapidly, and updated continuously.” “The good news is the U.S. has the technology, human capital, and expertise to mass produce these new kinds of autonomous systems.” “And launch a new Golden Age of defense production.” Rebuild The Arsenal. 🇺🇸
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on China’s Hidden “Ghost Fleet”: “China has 350x more shipbuilding capacity than the United States.” “Because in China, the law says that all commercial vessels have to meet military standards.” “They foresee a world where they’re going to nationalize their entire domestic fleet in a whole-of-China fight against the west.” “Quantity has a quality all its own… we’re gonna crank out [one] ship a month and they’re gonna put out 350 ships a month.” The only way for the U.S. Navy to catch up with China is autonomy. 🇺🇸 (See linked post)
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