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title: "Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding to Long Beach is the fighter jets"
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description: "Defense tech company Anduril plans to expand its Southern California presence with a new campus in Long Beach, creating approximately 5,500 new jobs. The 1.18 million square foot facility will focus on R&D and is expected to be operational by mid-2027. Founder Palmer Luckey highlighted the exciting potential of manufacturing autonomous fighter jets that could fly directly from the factory to combat. The company, known for its autonomous military drones, aims to hire a workforce similar to that at its nearby headquarters in Costa Mesa."
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# Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding to Long Beach is the fighter jets

Defense tech company Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the coastal town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.

The expanded campus will eventually support about 5,500 jobs. Luckey told TechCrunch that these will be new jobs, not transfers from other operations.

Anduril’s headquarters is nearby, in Costa Mesa, California, and it also has a massive manufacturing facility in Ohio. The Long Beach campus will span 1.18 million square feet across six buildings, combining office space and industrial areas dedicated to R&D. It is expected to be ready by mid-2027, the company said.

Long Beach is “a major aerospace hub right in our back yard,” Luckey told TechCrunch about why the company chose that location.

The plan is to hire similar types of employees to those working at headquarters: manufacturing workers, technicians, assembly workers, and engineers across disciplines (electrical, mechanical, aerodynamics), as well as build and test roles, and “a lot of people on the logistics side, because the things that we’re going to be making there, we’re going to be sending all over the world,” he said.

While bringing thousands of jobs to his childhood town made headlines today, Luckey said the most exciting part for him was the fighter jets.

“It looks like we’re going to be able to manufacture autonomous fighter jets that will take off right from the factory and fly to wherever the customer needs them,” he said. “We might have jets leaving the factory, flying directly into combat. And I think that that is extremely cool.”

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Anduril makes autonomous military drones and aircraft for land, air and sea. In 2025, it unveiled a fighter jet called Fury, designed to fly autonomously, meaning it operates using AI rather than being piloted remotely by a human operator. The AI executes flight plans set by humans. The Fury completed its first test flight in California on October 31.

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