Anduril's Barracuda-100M autonomous air vehicle (AAV) achieved a significant milestone in May by completing another series of successful flight tests for the U.S. Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) High-Speed Maneuverable Missile (HSMM) program. The HSMM program aims to create an affordable, high-speed, maneuverable, and modular air vehicle testbed for AvMC’s Precision Target Acquisition Seeker (PTAS) payload. The Government developed PTAS payload is being developed to allow for passive, autonomous tracking of identified targets. It uses video feedback to correlate and seek a previously identified target image using a Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) camera within the seeker. As part of this effort, Anduril has integrated the PTAS payload autonomy into its Lattice for Mission Autonomy suite, demonstrating how Anduril's commitment to modular hardware and software enables rapid integration of various payloads and mission systems for unique customer mission sets.
Working in close partnership with the AvMC Technology Development Directorate (TDD-M), in 2023 Anduril completed a series of HSMM trade studies and design reviews for the Barracuda-100M. In 2024, Anduril completed major testing milestones, including full scale transonic wind tunnel testing, environmental testing, captive carriage flights, glide test, and engine testing, all culminating in multiple powered flights of the Barracuda-100M for the HSMM program. This achievement represented concept to powered flight in under two years, including an aggressive 12-month test campaign.
In May 2025, Anduril executed several additional powered flights of Barracuda-100M, aimed at further expanding and verifying the vehicle's capabilities and performance. These flights included both software and hardware updates to greatly improve the performance and manufacturability of the platform, including integration of an Anduril developed low-cost navigator, independent mission computer, and several design improvements for manufacturability. Anduril exceeded all outlined test objectives, including autonomous launch, mission execution, and multiple terminal guidance strikes. Barracuda-100M met or exceeded all vehicle performance criteria, including high-G maneuvers and speeds of more than 500 knots, demonstrating how the system packs high performance into a small, modular form factor to unlock new concepts of operation for tactical forces. The flight tests serve as an important milestone towards future operational employment of Barracuda-100M.
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Download free sample pages More informationLater this year, Anduril will execute a series of ground-launch demonstrations of Barracuda-100M for the HSMM program, proving out its multi-domain launch potential and unlocking new capabilities for mobile ground forces by equipping them with a highly-maneuverable, mass-producible, extended range, and high-speed direct attack munition. Ultimately, the HSMM program will culminate with a live fire demonstration at a government test range in 2026.
About Barracuda-100M
Designed from the ground-up for affordable, hyper-scale production, Barracuda-100M is purpose-built to bring mass to the fight. Offering 10x the range of the comparably-sized Hellfire missile at a similar price point, Barracuda-100M delivers a capability that will be critical for conflicts requiring extended standoff, collaborative autonomy, and rapid target engagement.
When powered and controlled by Anduril’s Lattice for Mission Autonomy software platform (or third-party software suites), Barracuda-100M is capable of novel collaborative autonomous behaviors that increase survivability and effectiveness against large target sets in contested environments. As a software-defined, hardware-enabled platform, Barracuda’s performance and behaviors can be rapidly and continuously updated to meet evolving mission requirements at the speed of relevance.
Like all Barracuda variants, Barracuda-100M is highly modular and can be configured with a wide range of payloads and sensors to support a wide variety of missions. Barracuda-100M can be launched from the ground or air and is compatible with existing external rails of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, tail launches from airlift aircraft, and multiple ground-launch modalities, providing theater commanders with a variety of employment options to strike targets at extended ranges.
Barracuda-100M delivers the capability and mass required to deter or prevail in a high-end fight.
