“Half the parts, half the cost, and 95% less production tools mean America can mass-produce whole batteries of Barracuda at a scale that can beat China,” gloats Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey on X. Announcing his autonomous cruise missile system Barracuda-M with a slick cel-shaded video, the VR-inventor-turned-arms-dealer talks up the design on social media. While shiny Pentagon weapons are nothing new, Luckey notably (and unscrupulously) brings Silicon Valley know-how to weapons manufacturing.