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FURY: "We [were] competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, & in the end Anduril beat all of them." Palmer Luckey (Palmer Luckey), Anduril "This is the first autonomous fighter that the United States Air Force has ever procured. We recently just flew it for the first time. We... show more
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![Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Competing with Legacy Defense Primes: “They would say Anduril was never gonna work… then all of a sudden we’re delivering the Air Force their first autonomous fighter jet.” “A lot of our competitors are now saying: ‘We can’t do what Anduril does… and if you try to make us, if you force us to invest like that, to take the risk, then we are going to fail.’” “To me this is a crazy strategy. In the short term it might convince a congressman: ‘We need to keep this manufacturing facility going, because if we don’t subsidize it, it will disappear and that would be bad for national security.’” “The long-term effect is you’re telling everyone in DC that you’re not as good as Anduril.” “[The legacy primes] are shooting themselves in the knees to get emergency healthcare… it is a bad long-term strategy, even if it gets you into the hospital.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2012654139835040083/amplify_video_thumb/2012653972155236352/img/-EjQ8mO-MsJvcL1R.jpg)
![Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Hidden Crisis Facing the U.S. Military: “Look at how we beat the Soviet Union… we forced them to spend all their money trying to keep up with us militarily and we bankrupted them.” “I’m concerned we’re on a path to do that in the United States.” “Our weapons are so expensive, so overpriced… [and they] can be destroyed by things that cost 1000x less.” “If China knows we’re going to run out of weapons after two weeks of warfare… [and we can’t afford] to rebuild our arsenal, we’re just a two week distraction at best in their aims of conquest.” “I started Anduril because I wanted to build [weapons] that were affordable enough that you could build them at scale.” “Anduril is about making sure that America doesn’t bankrupt ourselves trying to protect our allies around the world.” Rebuild the Arsenal. 🇺🇸](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2003662396443726219/amplify_video_thumb/2003662259004796929/img/xuxC2_IOymY2Dhhe.jpg)
![Palmer Luckey believes the U.S. can still outpace China in defense innovation: "I truly do not believe that [China is] too far ahead. There are a lot of advantages that the United States can still bring to bear.” "Even if there's only a 1 in a million chance that we go into a hot war with China... you should be really glad that there's a bunch of nutty people like me... who believe that we can win that fight.” "Remember our goal is not to beat China in a fight necessarily. It's to deter them from invading in the first place." "Even if I'm wrong, this country needs people like me who believe that it isn't [too late]." Source: Palmer Luckey on Honestly with Bari Weiss Palmer Luckey Bari Weiss Honestly with Bari Weiss](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1982919156677914702/amplify_video_thumb/1982918990939971584/img/QYV-iBYPM96by14c.jpg)
![😡GROTESQUE: Jared Kushner on Gaza— "[I'm a] volunteer to help the government when asked... [but] we appointed [the] new government in Gaza... businessmen who are risking their lives." "Tony Blair has been great." "We're building a Palestinian police force." "Steve [Witkoff] and I are both realizing, 'Oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together.'" ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I have not joined the administration, so I'm still just a, volunteer like other businessmen who volunteer to help the government when asked. The level of engagement has definitely been a lot more than, I anticipated. "It really got started with Gaza. I was helping, Steve Witkoff, who's, really, an amazing human being. And he's really made a big sacrifice to go and devote his life to trying to make a difference on some of these, very, very challenging issues. And I know firsthand how lonely it is to be in those jobs and how hard it is when everyone's rooting against your success. "And so I spent a lot of time helping Steve, just quietly. And then when things got very intense with Gaza, Steve, and the president asked me to get more involved operationally, which obviously, when the president asks you to do something, you do it. And, we worked together incredibly well. We're able to achieve an outcome that, I think nobody thought was possible. "For two years, the war in Gaza was raging. It was causing really, a big dark cloud over the entire world. And I think that, it was something we were able to get in. And really, with the great help of our partners, in Qatar and Egypt and Turkey and many others who helped, we were able to get to a great outcome. "And now the 20 hostages have been brought home. All 28 bodies have been returned. It's the first time since 2014 that there's no, hostages or dead bodies in Gaza. And now that's creating the conditions for a new beginning. "You know, the other side of it as well is now that the war has stopped and we've, you know, a lot of people thought it wouldn't hold. It was a very delicate ceasefire in the beginning. You know, I thought I would get the deal done, and then, you know, I'd go back to my life. But then Steve and I are both realizing, oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together. "You know, there's so much here hatred and emotion and distrust when you're ending a war that you can't just, like a light switch, turn it on and off. So we, then started focusing on how do we deal with the massive humanitarian issue that was occurring in Gaza. You had 2 million people there. "We've been able to work with the United Nations. I give Tom Fletcher a lot of credit. We've, put in more humanitarian aid into a war zone. Than I think has ever been done in history. So now, there's a lot of aid in there, and we've started the rebuilding process. I know Yakir, Gabay is here, who's a great friend of mine, and, he's basically volunteered all of his time away, from his businesses to try and help us come up with a plan to do this. "Tony Blair has been great, so we really have brought a lot of great entrepreneurs and thinkers in, and I think we're, making a lot of progress. And, we're currently, I think it's about four months, since the war, was stopped, and I think nobody thought it would last this long. And, we're kind of at the final stages of the negotiations with Hamas on the demilitarization, where, they've basically agreed in principle to, follow through. That was the agreement we did. Now their concerns are mostly about, well, if we turn over our weapons and we do this, who are we turning them over to? "And, we're building a Palestinian police force. Right now we had over, I think about 200,000 applicants for it, and I think over like 70,000 that passed our vet. So we're going to build a great Palestinian police force, and so we have to work it through. And I think that we appointed a new government in Gaza, which also was a very interesting, experience all, again, businessmen who are risking their lives, to go in and do public service in that area. And, our goal is just to really help them. And I think we want to see this region built for, at least Gaza. We want to see it built for the people of Gaza."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2037701588664684901/amplify_video_thumb/2037698393980751872/img/6KMUsGH_fQ3KaVLo.jpg)
![🚨 NEW: Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey Responds to China’s Personal Sanctions Against Him “Anduril has been sanctioned for years… but to finally personally be sanctioned, to be told that all my ‘Chinese Assets’ will be seized, that I can no longer enter China… I’m actually very proud of that. “[The CCP] says that I’m selling [weapons] to the ‘separatist terrorist group’ that controls Taiwan. I’m a big fan of the separatists.” “I think the United States has realized that we don’t have time for business as usual when it comes to China’s aggression towards Taiwan. “We need to accelerate the process of turning [Taiwan] into a prickly porcupine that nobody wants to step on, nobody wants to eat.” “[Anduril is selling Taiwan] a variety of air-defense systems, maritime systems, systems that can be used to destroy invading craft, invading aircraft, and invading ground forces.” “Most of the stuff that [Anduril] designs is designed to go after China more than Venezuela… if anyone goes toe-to-toe with China you’re gonna see a lot of Anduril stuff in the mix.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2009105829274771706/amplify_video_thumb/2009105695082221568/img/TGKWX3p2HdceBk4_.jpg)
![Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on Going Public: “If [Anduril] ever gets an investor base that is pressuring us to do the wrong thing, I’m gonna need to go in the press and say some crazy shit to scare them all away.” “We are going public… you can’t win an F-35 scale program without doing it.” “When we become a public company… we need to attract people that believe in our vision and repel people who don’t believe in our vision.” “A lot of people imagine that if Anduril goes public we’ll become like other public defense companies… less risk, paying out dividends rather than investing in R&D.” “But that doesn’t have to be the case. Even when you transition to the public markets you can take action through your communications, through your decisions, that scare away people who want you to be like a traditional company.” “Tesla is probably the strongest example here... they’ve cultivated an investor base that believes in what Tesla is, and they’ve repelled everybody else.” “I think it’s the same way for us. I want all the Anduril haters, and people who want Anduril to be what a defense company used to be, to be running for the hills.” In an October 2025 interview, Palmer Luckey told Bloomberg that Anduril will go public in “low single-digit years.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2010439333145174446/amplify_video_thumb/2010439180308938753/img/IiFjhjFzfqalrSsc.jpg)
![Pep Guardiola on watching Arsenal’s style: “Yeah [I like watching Arsenal]…” Reporter: “What is it you like about them because they get a lot of criticism for their style?” Guardiola: “Yeah, people are so demanding. So demanding for the media, for the supporters, for everyone. I enjoy watching it. I learn a lot, many, many, many things. And the people, what they want, the people they want is win. “We fight in an aspect that is really, really, really important that we cannot fight against. It's 22 years without winning the Premier League. So with that aspect, we cannot fight. So they have something that makes it unique. “I know that I knew that feeling when we arrived here and for a long time we didn't win the Premier League, or a long time not because with Manuel and Mancini they did it, but for our era I would say one at a time, but in the first I know how you feel it, and that is something that we cannot play against, so that's why we had to focus on the way we had to play.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2045114098522726865/amplify_video_thumb/2045113966591139841/img/97jtTWJPqzBYSmC8.jpg)