An illustration of a two-stage “Steelfin” interceptor missile, showing its rocket booster and terminal projectile. The Steelfin’s cost is unknown, but Anduril has expressed optimism that it could manufacture thousands of the missiles per year. (Courtesy of Anduril)

How Anduril’s ‘Steelfin’ Missile Could Reshape the Indo-Pacific

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The major selling point of the Steelfin program is not its effectiveness, but its affordability—and the company’s ability to rapidly produce it at scale.

California-based defense startup Anduril has unveiled Steelfin, a new family of surface-to-air interceptor missiles. Designed to counter a wide range of aerial threats, ranging from inexpensive drones to advanced ballistic and even hypersonic missiles, Steelfin uses a modular architecture intended to reduce costs and simplify mass production.

Anduril has indicated that it hopes to manufacture several thousand of the missiles every year. The announcement comes nearly eight months after the launch of the war against Iran, and amid mounting concerns that America won’t be able to sustain the stockpiles of missiles necessary to conduct large-scale attacks, as Operation Epic Fury and other........

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