Anduril Bolt: Autonomous Air Vehicle Specifications and Capabilities

What Bolt Is, and What Bolt-M Changes

The Anduril Bolt is an autonomous air vehicle developed by Anduril. On its official product page at Anduril Bolt, Anduril classes the baseline airframe as an Autonomous Air Vehicle (AAV) built to deliver a rapid response capability for real-time situational awareness.

Bolt uses a modular layout that allows the baseline configuration to serve observation tasks while supporting an armed derivative built on the same core airframe.

The armed configuration is named the Anduril Bolt-M, which Anduril documents on the same product page as a dedicated munition variant. Anduril describes Bolt-M as purpose-built to arm any ground force with simple, flexible, and lethal precision firepower. Anduril publishes no separate product page for the munition variant, and requests to the direct web address at anduril.com/bolt-m return an HTTP 404 response.

While both variants share a common core architecture, Anduril publishes different specifications for endurance and total weight. For the base Bolt, Anduril reports endurance of more than 45 minutes and a weight of approximately 12 lbs. For the Bolt-M munition variant, Anduril reports endurance of more than 40 minutes and a weight of approximately 13 to 15 lbs. Both aircraft carry the identical published range metric of more than 20 km.

Published Anduril Bolt Specifications

Technical data published by Anduril across its specification panels focuses on three operational parameters: range, flight endurance, and aircraft weight. On its product page, Anduril writes operational range as +20km and endurance as +45min for Bolt and +40min for Bolt-M. The leading plus signs reflect open-ended minimum thresholds rather than fixed operational ceilings.

Weight figures also carry qualifying language directly from Anduril. Anduril lists the base Bolt at approximately 12 lbs, while Bolt-M is listed across an approximate weight band of 13 to 15 lbs. The table below presents these published specifications side by side.

Purpose-Built Operator Design and Handling Claims

Anduril identifies operator handling among the build qualities across both Bolt configurations. Anduril labels this design attribute as "Purpose-Built For the Operator" on its official specification overview. In corporate literature, Anduril describes Bolt as an integrated weapons system that can be safely handled, rapidly deployed, and effectively operated with minimal training.

Autonomous Tracking and Occlusion Handling

Anduril publishes one autonomy claim for Bolt, under the build quality it titles "Autonomous Tracking". Anduril states that advanced onboard computer vision and machine learning software enables operators to follow any target from custom standoff positions and maintain track custody through occlusion.

Precision Strike Geometry from Any Angle

Anduril publishes one strike-geometry claim for Bolt-M. Under the build quality designated "Precision Strike From Any Angle," Anduril describes the munition variant as uniquely engineered to attack from any angle, including directly above, to pinpoint vulnerabilities against targets in complex environments.

The Operational Split Between Defense and Commercial Missions

Anduril divides the application scope of the Bolt platform into distinct defense and commercial operational roles. In its defense mission summary, Anduril states that Bolt-M delivers on-demand precision firepower against static or moving ground-based targets.

For commercial missions, Anduril restricts its mission presentation entirely to the unarmed baseline Bolt. Anduril states that Bolt can be airborne at a moment's notice for missions like Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and Search and Rescue (SAR). In SAR applications, Bolt provides a published endurance of more than 45 minutes for airborne observation.

Competing small strike systems are covered in Anduril alternatives.

Where Bolt Fits in the Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike Grouping

Within Anduril's broader corporate hierarchy, Bolt sits in the Air domain under a dedicated portfolio designated as Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike. Anduril describes its overall Air domain as autonomous air systems that are tasked, connected, and controlled by the Anduril Lattice software platform, enabling diverse intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and strike mission profiles across command echelons.

The Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike grouping contains exactly three hardware platforms: Bolt, Altius, and Ghost. On the grouping index page, Anduril provides a unique operational description for Bolt, stating that advanced software automates the thousands of manual flight inputs required to accurately track or strike a target.

Ghost is described by Anduril as an expeditionary, quiet, and modular platform that delivers intuitive autonomy at the tactical edge, balancing extended range and multi-payload capacity with an expeditionary footprint. Altius is described as a versatile platform designed to provide on-demand capability launched from ground, air, or sea to conduct multiple mission profiles.

The Anduril Barracuda family belongs to the separate Air Dominance & Strike grouping alongside Fury. Separate coverage examines other platforms including the Anduril Roadrunner and Anduril Steelfin.

Unpublished Anduril Bolt Details and Procurement Gaps

Anduril publishes no unit price and no cost range for either Bolt variant anywhere on its product page. The specification panel on the Anduril Bolt product page is where a price would appear, so that is where to verify.

Physical airframe dimensions and kinematic flight metrics remain similarly unstated. Anduril publishes no airframe dimensions. Furthermore, no speed figure appears anywhere in the published literature for either variant. The published data confirms only that both aircraft reach a range of more than 20 km and that Bolt achieves endurance of more than 45 minutes while Bolt-M achieves more than 40 minutes.

For the armed Bolt-M, Anduril publishes no warhead type, warhead weight, or seeker detail. The payload capacity figure for the base Bolt, alongside any sensor model or camera specification, is entirely unpublished. Finally, Anduril lists no manufacturing output numbers, unit delivery figures, named defense customers, contract values, or initial operational capability dates.

Operators and procurement analysts seeking to verify these missing data points on the Anduril Bolt must monitor official updates directly at the Anduril Bolt product page.