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Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anduril’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Anduril recently beat several legacy defense players in a contest for a major contract to develop an unmanned fighter jet for the US Air Force and is now valued at $8.5 billion. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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mill are all the fury in defense tech : Anduril announce abillion - buck “ megafactory ” in Ohioearlier this year , while Saronic said last calendar month it’splanning its own factory to mass - green groceries autonomous warships .

Now , Anduril is consider building a manufactory in the U.K. as it expatiate beyond U.S. defense force contracts .

“ If we get enough parliamentary law , dead we are design to open up a facility in the UK , ” Rich Drake , Anduril ’s cosmopolitan manager for U.K. and Europe , recount Bloomberg .

Anduril would use the factory for drones and R&D and might select somewhere near Oxford and Cambridge , Siftedreported sooner .

European defense budget arebreaking recordsas the U.S.winds downaid to Ukraine , so there ’s plenty of opportunity .

Anduril , which is based in California and isreportedly in negotiation to raise at a $ 28 billion rating , did n’t answer to a request for comment .

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