2026-04-23
38 分钟The Economist.
The war in Iran has proved one thing:
that low-cost drones can challenge the might of America's military.
This is a Shahed kamikaze drone.
It's become one of the most disruptive weapons in the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Over a thousand drones were fired at the UAE in just one 24-hour period.
The Shahed drones are cheap, they're abundant, and they keep coming.
For many years, America has been fielding the most expensive weaponry available.
But could that all be about to change?
Anduril is a defense product company that spends its own money designing,
developing, and shipping tools that will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year
as we make tens of billions of dollars a year someday.
A new wave of defense companies have sprung up for the era of drone warfare.
The likes of Anduril, SpaceX, and Palantir are now winning big White House contracts.
Now there is a culture, what I would call patriotic Silicon Valley startups.
Young folks that are very motivated to bring these technologies for the defense of the nation.
So today, we speak to Anduril
and find out how this company is changing the way America wages war.
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