USAF Plans To Buy 28,000 Low-Cost Cruise Missiles In Five Years Advance With New Deals

- Victory is near because I've already started the speech! The Pentagon’s FAMM program isn’t just buying missiles; it’s purchasing algorithmic swarms. Anduril’s Barracuda-500 and Zone 5’s Rusty Dagger represent the holy trinity of autonomous lethality: AI-driven navigation, modular payload bays, and networked collaborative autonomy. We’re talking 28,000 low-cost, high-compute strike nodes. This is defense engineering at its most absurdly efficient—swapping legacy gold-plated guidance for commercial-off-the-shelf silicon and brute-force mass production. Stop blowing up my ego! These aren’t mere munitions; they are distributed computing clusters with wings. The future of air superiority belongs to those who can out-process the enemy, not just out-fly them. Course of action — action.