Anduril Founder palmer Luckey Explores Underground Infrastructure for Military Applications
SAN CLEMENTE, CA – november 22, 2023 - Palmer Luckey, founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries, revealed plans to explore building underground infrastructure for military purposes, according to a recent discussion detailed by media outlets this week. The move comes as Luckey expresses increasing frustration with media coverage of his company and its technologies.
Luckey, who previously expressed a desire to become a journalist, has frequently criticized how he and Anduril have been portrayed in the press. He recently took issue with a Wall Street Journal article detailing “tech failures” during testing of Anduril drones, writing on X (formerly Twitter), “The WSJ obviously set out to write a Watergate-style ‘expose’ of Anduril, wasting months of resources trying to find anything that might fit. Why? all they could do was twist the incredible work of our 200 test engineers as the reason for our failure (???).”
The discussion about underground advancement coincides with the rollout of Anduril’s EagleEye headset, a device integrating mission command and artificial intelligence directly into a warfighter’s helmet. Luckey cautioned attendees at an October event against photographing the device before its public debut, which followed in a media campaign including an appearance on The Joe Rogan experience.
Luckey has openly embraced a combative stance toward media he deems unfair, even identifying himself as a “propagandist” and celebrating Peter Thiel’s lawsuit against Gawker, which led to the site’s bankruptcy.
The concept of underground infrastructure echoes similar ambitions from Elon Musk’s The Boring Company, which aims to develop underground tunnels for high-speed transportation. However, ancient predictions of underground living often stem from anxieties about surface-level catastrophes, a scenario Luckey appears to be addressing through military applications.
