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Luckey: UAPs likely originate from the distant past, not future
“My current working theory is that they come from the past. So. Interesting. Ok. Coming from the future is too hard. The physics just don't seem to work out.”
Luckey: Anduril beat Boeing, Northrop, and Lockheed for USAF contract
“So we were competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and in the end, Andrel beat all of them.”
Luckey: Optical camouflage is not useful in modern defense
“The biggest problem with optical camouflage, and the main reason you don't see a lot of money being put towards it in the modern defense base is it's not actually that useful. It's useful against human adversaries who do not have any other technology to aid th…”
Luckey: China has hundreds of times more shipbuilding capacity than US
“China's hundreds of times ahead of it. Hundreds of times more capacity than us.”
Luckey predicts mass-producing weapons in existing auto factories will become a major model
“I think that that is a model that is going to be a big deal here in the United States, and I think it's also going to be a big deal in allied nations that similarly have a lot of their own existing industrial capacity. You know, you don't necessarily have to b…”
Luckey: Anduril beat Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop for fighter contract
“We were competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and in the end, Andrew beat all of them, which was really really gratifying to, you know, go from starting this company to going toe to toe with the guys who are legends of the fighter commun…”
Luckey: Anduril built optically invisible drones around 2019–2020
“Building drones that are invisible to the human eye at the ranges that you're using them, it's not just like a hypothetical. Andrew did this in like, 2019, 20 20.”
Luckey: Optical camouflage is easy to build but useless in modern defense
“The point is, visible spectrum optic camouflage is actually quite easy, but something like this would be trivially easily seen By you know, an infrared camera, thermal camera, you know, lidar, radar. So the biggest problem with optical camouflage, and the main…”
Luckey: UAPs are likely relics from the distant past, not future
“So that's my bet is basically given that there's been a lot more time before now than now. Just probabilistically speaking, I think it's likely these things have been around for a very long time.”
Luckey: Fury is the first autonomous fighter procured by US Air Force
“This is the first autonomous fighter that the United States Air Force has ever procured.”
Luckey: Anduril took Fury from contract to flight in 556 days
“We went from signing a contract with the Air Force to first flight in 556 days. Which is, as far as I know, the fastest new fighter development program since the end of the Korean War.”
Luckey: Self-funding defense products creates better speed incentives
“Instead, we're investing our own money in building what we think the right products are, and then we sell them to the government. So we want to be going to the government Generally, with a product rather than a PowerPoint, or at least a prototype instead of a …”
Luckey: Marine Corps started hundreds of fires at Camp Pendleton last year
“The Marine Corps itself started hundreds of fires on their weapons training range last year alone, just at Camp Pendleton.”
Luckey: Anduril built visually invisible Ghost drones around 2019 or 2020
“So building drones that are invisible to the human eye at the ranges that you're using them, it's not just, like, a hypothetical. Andrew did this in, like, 2019, 20”
Luckey: Anduril Sentry Towers cover about 35% of US southern border
“We're covering about 35% of the U.S. Southern border now.”
Luckey: Anduril made Fury landing gear heavier so any US machine shop can make it
“Fury's landing gear is a few percent heavier than it could have been, because we could have either made it manufacturable by only two places in the entire United States, or any machine shop in the entire country.”
Luckey: Fury is the US Air Force's first procured autonomous fighter
“This is the first autonomous fighter that the United States air force has ever procured.”
Luckey: Anduril took Fury to first flight in 556 days
“We went from signing a contract with the air force to first flight in 556 days. Which is, as far as I know, the fastest new fighter development program since the end of the Korean War.”
Luckey: Anduril operates as a defense product company, not a contractor
“We like to think of our approach as being a defense product company, not a defense contractor. That is, we're not getting paid to engage in contracted work where they say, go and do, you know, this many hours of work to build exactly this thing. Instead, we're…”
Luckey: Anduril has had hundreds or thousands of failed tests and fires
“We've had hundreds, if not thousands of failed tests over the eight years that we've existed. We've started hundreds of fires.”
Luckey: Moon Is Ideal for Phased Arrays and Electronic Warfare
“The Moon would be a great place for large phased array, like phased arrays, large antenna fields that can do a variety of electronic warfare schemes, radar tracking schemes”
Luckey: Lunar Warfare Will Be Swift and Catastrophic for Everyone
“Warfare on the moon is probably going to be decisive, and swift, and catastrophic for everybody involved, until we get much, much, much better at building
Building space technology.”
Luckey: Current Spaceships Cannot Be Armored Due to Mass Constraints
“The requirements are so severe on the weight side, on the mass, like, the mass and volume side, that you can't armor a spaceship currently. It just doesn't, it doesn't really work.”
Luckey: Space Combat Will Center on Avoiding Detection entirely
“Space combat's gonna be all about never being detected, Never being targeted, never being fired upon, because the moment that you're hit, you're probably totally wrecked.”
Luckey: Camouflage from human eyes is easier than hiding from synthetic sensors
“It's a lot harder to hide from synthetic systems. So if you're talking about like, radars, or lidars, or, there's a large number of ways that you can see the world that are not just visible spectrum imaging. People are actually relatively easy to fix.”