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Project NYX: UK selects 4 firms to develop an Apache “loyal wingman” autonomous collaborative platform, down-selecting Anduril U

The UK Ministry of Defence has advanced Project NYX by selecting four companies—BAE Systems (UK), Anduril UK, Tekever, and Thales—for a concept demonstrator to field autonomous, uncrewed “wingmen” operating alongside AH-64 Apache helicopters. In the next phase, MOD down-selected Anduril UK for development toward operational capability by 2030.

Discovered 2026-05-15T04:38:00.040518-07:00 | 2026-05-15T04:38:00.040518-07:00

Briefing

What Hype is tracking

  • MOD’s Project NYX is a concrete step toward integrating autonomous uncrewed systems with crewed attack helicopters, with a stated goal of operational capability by 2030—moving beyond experimentation into a programmatic pathway.
  • The industrial selection and Anduril UK down-select concentrate risk reduction and platform responsibility among a defined set of primes, shaping near-term UK defense autonomy supply chains (and likely follow-on work) as seen in other Anduril scaling efforts like its Ohio “loyal wingman” production plans (source:483d4b71-9415-418d-8ea0-3ce32d1dcb74).
  • It also reinforces the broader UK/Western emphasis on Apache-adjacent autonomy and offboard effects, building on recent Apache-drone experimentation such as the AH-64E-launched Anduril Altius 700 milestone (source:7b563180-af4e-41f4-8853-7b7d4d4d1a85).

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unmannedsystemstechnology.com DroneXL army-technology.com defenceonline.co.uk tectonicdefense.com Vertical Mag
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First Seen
2026-05-15T04:38:00.040518-07:00
Latest Update
2026-05-21T04:32:28.782946-07:00
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