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> Design For Rapid Scale In a Crisis One of the things that I think Anduril (Palmer Luckey and other founders) is doing right is designing for manufacturabilit
by chiph 11mo ago
> Design For Rapid Scale In a Crisis
One of the things that I think Anduril (Palmer Luckey and other founders) is doing right is designing for manufacturability. The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons at a very high pace. And that the US capability to build them at the rate needed to sustain conflict isn't there anymore. But that one thing that could help is making them easier to build. (the decline of US manufacturing is a related but separate topic)
- gyulai 11mo ago> sustain conflict ...this turn of phrase in relation to goal-setting really makes you think twice.
- ACCount37 11mo agoWelcome to war. If you can't sustain a conflict, you will lose to anyone who can.
- gyulai 11mo agoThere's no need to welcome me to war. I'm not in one, despite the fact that the powers that be are hellbent on getting me (and everyone else) into one.
- ACCount37 11mo agoOh, yes. That's exactly how it works. No one would ask you "do you want to get into a war"? Ukraine didn't want to get into a war. Turns out it wasn't their call to make! Least you can do is be prepared. If a hostile country believes "oh, they can't handle a war, it's going to be so easy", the risk of that country trying shit goes up. And if you really can't, the war would be more devastating than if you can.
- wartywhoa23 11mo agoThe truth is that countries can't want anything, be hostile, or have any other personal trait simply because countries are not animate entities but rather a huge number of absolutely different people with different goals, and most of them would just love to mind their own business and don't want to kill and die in the name of some scum calling itself government. Speaking of war as something inevitable, something unconditionally built in into human nature, and telling people who want peace to prepare, as in Orwell's "war is peace", simply reinforces the narratives of said scum and spins this morbid wheel up into total destruction.
- Y-bar 11mo agoWhat’s up with Maga people using LotR names for their military/panopticon companies? Anduril, Palantir, Lembas have I seen so far.
- JoshTriplett 11mo agoLembas seems unrelated to the MIC, or is there some investor or board member in common? (EDIT: thanks to a reply for researching; it is the same people.) As for the rest, I think because it's many of the same people and the same VCs.
- Y-bar 11mo agoLembas LLC is owned by Peter Thiel.
- qchris 11mo agoHere's a 2022 from Quartz article that might have some context on this. Anduril isn't on the list according to the footnote, but Thiel and Lucky have since had a history collaborating on projects with the same naming scheme. [1] https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-company-names https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord... [2] https://fortune.com/2025/07/07/peter-thiel-palmer-luckey-erebor-digital-bank-lord-of-the-rings-dark-history/ https://fortune.com/2025/07/07/peter-thiel-palmer-luckey-ere...
- dgunay 11mo agoIs it a MAGA thing, or is it just a Palmer Luckey thing?
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- nradov 11mo agoIn particular Anduril is designing its weapons such that they could be manufactured in many other existing civilian factories using common tools and equipment. This should allow for rapidly scaling production in a crisis.
- trhway 11mo ago>The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons at a very high pace. That has been shown even in WWII. And the war was won by US/UK/USSR specifically because their mass production of weapons were several times higher than Germany/Japan/Italy. The war in Ukraine actually haven't yet reached the levels of weapons use of WWII. (for example 500K-1M/day artillery shells in WWII vs. 20-60K/day in Ukraine war) These days i so far see only China capable and ready to produce weapons, say drones, at that scale. And i so far don't see anybody, including Anduril with their anti-drone systems, able, or even preparing, to deal with 1M/day (my modest estimate of what China would unleash even in a small conflict like say for Taiwan) of enemy drones. No existing anti-drone systems/approaches are scalable to that level, and we can only hope that something new is being developed somewhere in top secret conditions, and that is why we don't know about it.
- bootsmann 11mo agoIs this just their marketing language or have they independently verified this? IIRC their interceptors got absolutely rinsed at trials in Alaska so I’d be very wary of their claims at this point.
- ntonozzi 11mo agoCould you share more information about the trials in Alaska? I can't track down the results you're talking about.
- DeathArrow 11mo ago>The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons at a very high pace. And that the US capability to build them at the rate needed to sustain conflict isn't there anymore. China has no issue with manufacturing so they will be happy to sell weapons to US at better prices than US manufactured weapons. :)
- mcphage 11mo ago> the decline of US manufacturing is a related but separate topic I was under the impression that US manufacturing output is at an all-time high—is that not the case?
- w10-1 11mo ago> that one thing that could help is making them easier to build That means anyone can build them. Be wary of advances that benefit your enemy as much as you, and make more of your enemies capable of war.