Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

Palmer Luckey was the founder of Oculus VR

Very cool aesthetic - https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGAPMRBva0AAiF0l.jpg

Cost claim - low hundreds of thousands of dollars (I find it unlikely it'll be this low, we'll see if they can pull it off)

Not sure I see the point of landing suicide drones at such a low price point.

The point appears to be the kinetic interceptor suicide only happens a small fraction of the time. Most usage would be the reuse case.

> Roadrunner-M is a high-explosive interceptor variant of Roadrunner built for ground-based air defense that can rapidly launch, identify, intercept, and destroy a wide variety of aerial threats — or be safely recovered and relaunched at near-zero cost.

(key word is the "or")