The US State Department has approved a possible $1.98 billion Foreign Military Sale of Anduril Industries counter-drone systems to Kuwait, the largest international contract in the company's history and one of the biggest single counter-UAS packages ever cleared by Washington. The notification, sent to Congress on June 5, comes weeks after Kuwait was hit by a serious drone incident at its main civil airport.
A Layered Counter-Drone Shield
The package centres on Anduril's Roadrunner-Munition and Anvil-Kinetic interceptors and weaves them into a single network using the company's Lattice command-and-control software. Roadrunner-M is a reusable, twin-turbojet VTOL interceptor designed to defeat Group 2 and Group 3 drones and subsonic cruise missiles; Anvil-Kinetic is a smaller, lower-cost interceptor optimised for swarming Group 1 targets through direct kinetic kill.
Sensors And Electronic Warfare On The Same Network
The deal also bundles in fixed, mobile, extended-range and maritime Sentry Towers — autonomous sensor masts that use computer vision and machine learning to detect, classify and track aerial threats — alongside Pulsar electromagnetic-warfare equipment that disrupts drone communications, navigation and control links. Menace tactical operations centres, generators, training packages and software-development services round out the FMS notification.
Defence-Tech's Biggest International Foothold
The Kuwait sale cements Anduril's position at the head of the new-generation defence-tech cohort. The company already has the Pentagon's $20 billion Army counter-UAS enterprise contract and saw its valuation rise to $61 billion in last month's Series H. The Kuwait package is more than double the size of Anduril's prior largest international award and underscores how software-first defence firms are now winning marquee FMS deals once reserved for traditional primes. It also reinforces a Middle East counter-drone build-up that has already prompted Saronic's Corsair USV deployments near the Strait of Hormuz and the US Army's purchase of 82 AeroVironment P550 drones.
Reporting based on coverage from Breaking Defense, Army Recognition and the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency.