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Anduril is not part of the big 5: boeing, lockheed, northrop, raytheon, general dynamics
most of their R and D is privately funded, not taxpayer money
I think that Anduril is addressing an important segment in the defense industry. Private or public funding doesn't make any difference in this.
I do worry about personal defense though, because we know (or used to know? or thought we knew?) that we need parity between the government and the individual, especially when it comes to arms? I'm still on team gattling gun.
is pepper spray illegal in Europe?
Faraday cage?
Will a Faraday cage repel the Moors?
China definitely does not want to invade Taiwan.
What they do want is a negotiated transition.
They understand that is only possible if you have the military sabre rattling credibility - capacity to potentially use force.
Trump has already signaled a negotiated retreat is likely by reshoring chip production.
The agreement to a staged return of Taiwan to the mainland will be one of Trumps most significant bargaining chips in April, if he wants to do a deal.
And he needs a deal because without those rare earths the US military industrial complex is crippled for the next decade despite whatever nonsense @Cje95 fabricates.
Gotta love how you just claim I am making stuff up when I addressed things you were going to say in this post so maybe take a moment and read the whole thing. The last paragraph addresses your claims directly and takes them apart. The US has stock piled heavy rare earths for the defense industry for 10 years. A cut off wouldn't have immediate or mid range effects on the defense sector.
China has it published by their government that they will use force and invade Taiwan to bring them into the fold. That's the Chinese government saying it not me, not America, not the West, its China. They even use their 2005 Anti-Secession Law as justification.
We sold $11 billion in arms to Taiwan in December and are currently finalizing another significant deal before the Xi/Trump meeting which is pretty odd to do if what you are saying holds any sort of water. The defense industry in the US is a huge employer for manufacturing at the moment so the idea of Trump turning his back on manufacturing when he is in the middle of trying to kick start it is a very out of touch take.
Reshoring, which you are trying to give to Trump and thus shows how little you know, was funded by the CHIPS and Science Act that my Committee spearheaded. So I kinda know this one pretty well and ya see that was a Biden era priority and was passed in 2022. Trump didn't do anything the Biden admin had allotted most of the money.
Even if the US wanted Taiwan to go back and fold into China they don't want to so the idea is moot. It is funny you think Trump would strike a deal like that with Xi blow up his entire end of conflicts legacy he has been chasing. To think Trump would want to nuke his legacy over Taiwan is a terrible terrible take.
Plus lets throw in how China also just hollowed out its entire military leadership and now they have no one with any sort of combat experience in charge.... that's called how to fail 101. You can't replace experience with textbooks.
I'm sure that as a DoD contractor they have a lot at stake on that one. I generally distrust anything that comes out of corporate that improves their bottom line. I don't doubt they believe it and I don't want to disqualify their insight though. They may very well be right.
FWIW, when I say "war-hawk argument", I don't just mean those in the US. Those are relatively benign, compared to other "forces", like the Brits.