Overview
- The companies reported a successful static fire that validated a heavywall solid rocket motor using a Highly Loaded Grain configuration for air-launched weapons.
- The effort was executed with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate, with Raytheon Advanced Technology providing technical guidance.
- The HLG design packs more energetic propellant into the motor to target higher specific impulse and longer range potential.
- Anduril highlighted the test as a demanding engineering milestone and pointed to its new Mississippi facility, backed by over $75 million in private investment, for scaled production.
- Raytheon and Anduril framed the work as enabling a modular, composable weapons approach intended to speed integration across platforms and strengthen the propulsion supply base.