Anduril UK boss brags about improving UK military ‘kill chain’

Rich Drake, CEO of Anduril, boasted to the British military’s in-house media about his firm’s role in enhancing troop lethality. Anduril, also used by the US, has ties with Israeli arms maker Rafael.

Drake told Forces New — the UK military’s own propaganda channel — that his products would streamline ‘kill chains.’ A kill chain is process by which targets are identified, prioritised, and hit, which you can read all about here.

In a brazen puff piece for the military firm, Forces News said:

The British Army wants to double its lethality by 2027 and triple it by 2030 – and one way it’s hoping to achieve this is by using something called Lattice.

This system joins up and integrates all the sensors and effectors the Army currently uses.

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They further said:

In other words, all the assets available to it, whether that be loitering munitions, attack drones or F-35s providing close air support, can all be monitored and tasked from one screen.

Drake told the outlet, which announced a new 10yr deal with the UK military on 24 April, that:

In the past, maybe two different companies had two different systems and you would have to transfer data from one to the other by writing it down, swivelling your chair across and typing it into another system.

And the beauty of software like Lattice means we can integrate those natively and speeding up decision cycles in what we call kill chains, again, to help the Army become more lethal.

Never have the words “beauty” and “lethality” sat so uncomfortably in a single sentence.

Fully autonomous options

Drake continued:

If we think of how Lattice is used, an operator may be looking for a Russian air defence system and have assets in the air, sensors in the air, such as radars or cameras to find it.

When those cameras find the air defence system, what Lattice can do is make the connection between the sensor to the effector, which may be a fighter in the air or a one-way drone ready to make that attack.

Adding:

Lattice then makes that connection and creates a kill chain – and creates that kill chain at machine speed – computer machine speed rather than at human speed.

Truly “beautiful”…

Drakes stressed that while the killing could be carried out “fully autonomously”:

Right now, there is a rule of law around warfare and we completely support that at Anduril.

We support any rule of law or any way the military wish to use it… the human will always be involved.

Forces News said training on the systems would take place at a re-purposed RAF base in Wales.

Anduril’s dark reality

In 2024, Anduril partnered with Israel arms firm Rafael and AI firm Oracle to:

pair various command and control, sensor-to-shooter, intelligence operations, and expeditionary C4 platforms with the company’s cloud infrastructure.

And the US military signed a $20bn deal with Anduril in March 2026. The US has used Anduril technology in its illegal, unprovoked war with Iran. Anduril US chief Matthew Steckman confirmed this on 24 March 2026:

We’re heavy participants in the current conflict in the Middle East, mainly on the defensive side.

Adding:

So if you’ve read about the Shahed drone, as an example, we’re one of the principal systems to defend against that threat in the Middle East.

The British military finds itself in dubious company once again. Relying on Anduril’s technology ties the UK deeper into the US-Israeli colonial security framework. The firm claims it isn’t using fully autonomous killing systems yet, but has made clear that capacity exists. These rapid developments are outstripping international law’s ability to catch up — with dangerous implications for everyone.

Featured image via Anduril Industries/X/Twitter

By Joe Glenton

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