Anduril Industries Launches its C4 vehicle system, Menace-X

Menace-X is designed for mobile command and control in challenging communication environments, facilitating complex mission sets like maritime surface fire coordination.

Current C2 solutions demand extensive logistics, setup time, and specialized training. With logistics and communications networks facing heightened adversary threats, warfighters must rapidly disperse, maneuver, and communicate across distributed forces to sustain operations at the edge amidst multi-domain attacks. This is where Menace-X excels.

Menace-X is easily transportable by various air and naval platforms, offering on-demand C2 worldwide. It boasts an intuitive interface for seamless control of power, communications, and compute subsystems. Operators can utilize government software or Anduril’s Lattice C2 suite for live asset tasking and battlefield effects, or utilize built-in applications for analytics, planning, threat detection, and targeting.

"Menace-X provides situational awareness of friendly and adversary forces by bringing national, strategic and local sensor data and tracks down to the tactical level, allowing for the real-time tasking of assets and prosecution of targets," said Tom Keane, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Anduril. “Fully operational within minutes of aircraft roll-off, Menace-X allows teams at the tactical edge to C2 forces, fires, and effects at the speed and scale necessary to achieve overmatch of the pacing threat.”

Menace-X features, software-defined communications infrastructure that can be orchestrated on a user-defined basis, allowing operators to use the electromagnetic spectrum as a maneuver space. And with integrated mesh networking and Anduril’s AutoPACE™ software, Menace-X monitors the performance of network pathways and intelligently selects the optimal link with the ability to adjust based on mission requirements. Onboard communications include bi-directional data exchange across six pathways (PLEO, GEO, Cellular, UHF/VHF, HF/WBHF, Hardline, Link-16) and unidirectional receipt of three further data feeds (IBS, ADS-B, AIS).

The open architecture of Menace-X enables operators to access joint sensor-to-shooter networks, ingress and hold custody of thousands of weapons-quality tracks, and if necessary, egress those tracks to weapons control systems for targeting and prosecution.