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Anduril Announces Pulsar Family of AI-Enabled Electromagnetic Warfare Systems
- blackhawkC17 2y agoAnduril seems to be on a tear lately. It'll be awkward if nerdy Palmer Luckey builds the next Lockheed Martin. I also can't believe this guy was 21 when he sold Oculus for $3 billion, damn.
- uoaei 2y ago"Seems to be on a tear" is the result of good marketing and well-timed releases. Obviously these kinds of things don't just appear one day.
- constantcrying 2y ago4 years apparently. That seems quite short for the claimed capabilities. Especially given how frequent cost/time overruns are for military suppliers.
- kibibu 2y agoThere's been quite a bit of reputation laundering going on for Palmer after his 2016 election shenanigans
- misiti3780 2y agoTheir website is beautiful.
- buildbot 2y agoUnrelated to the article, but did Andruril pay the Tolkien estate for their name? “Flame of the west…”
- constantcrying 2y agoQuite interesting to see how effective a supplier for the US military can be. Assuming that each of their technologies is actually able to deliver, this is extremely impressive, especially compared to what the usual suspects put out.
- relaxing 2y agoIt’s smoke and mirrors. They’re promising literally everything under the EW sun, which is easy to do when you’re not under contract to prove it or deliver anything.
- constantcrying 2y agoSo you think it is a ponzi scheme on investors? If they have no product to sell to the US/NATO military then obviously the company is worthless.
- relaxing 2y agoThe defense contractor space is entirely made of players who make big promises, then get under contract to deliver something just functional enough to get follow-on funding to “make it operational this time.” With the right connections, it’s extremely possible to fail upward on this track.
- idontwantthis 2y agoThey have other products that are very real AFAICT. Reusable loitering munitions and air combat drones.
- stri8ted 2y agoThis is not the case. From Palmer's Twitter: "Pulsar is one of several Anduril products that has been undercover for years. It has already been deployed to multiple AORs across continents at fixed sites, on ground vehicles, and in aircraft. RFML (Radio Frequency Machine Learning) is a game-changer for electronic warfare."
- relaxing 2y agoOh well if the CEO says so Edit: To be clear, you have read what’s not being said: no agency is funding this or taking delivery of anything. With internal R&D you can make any outlandish claims and no one can call you out on it. (Under contract R&D, your outlandish claims are tied to a statement of work.)
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- aftbit 2y agoAnduril vs Palantir - fight!
- mandevil 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia, at least two of the five founders of Anduril came from Palantir and several of the investors are the same across both companies (probably including Peter Thiel? It's not exactly clear from skimming the wiki). So I suspect that the correct f-verb is not "fight."
- maxglute 2y agoWonder who their concept artists / industrial designers are.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoPress releases from arms dealers are certainly not political. I love this news by and for hackers.
- relaxing 2y agoDARPA has been working this problem for decades. I’m fairly skeptical anything will come of “AI-enabled EW” on the battlefield. The fundamental problems are still of physics and hardware engineering - can I sense and retune my transmitter quickly enough to keep up with a frequency agile adversary (you can’t), can I broadcast loudly enough over a broad enough spectrum to drown out my adversary without also committing fratricide (also no), can I classify wartime reserve modes and respond appropriately (you think you can, but any reasonably clever adversary — which is to say anyone already playing in the space — will exploit your naive AI to their advantage.)