# Anduril Nissan Oppama Plant Acquisition Talks Reported by Reuters on June 25, 2026: [[Anduril]] is in talks to acquire [[Nissan]]'s shuttered **Oppama assembly plant** in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a military drone production site. > **Talks, not a deal.** No agreement has been signed. Nissan says it is weighing other buyers, and Anduril still needs procurement orders from Japan's military to justify buying the plant at all. This page tracks a negotiation that may resolve either way; do not treat it as a completed acquisition. ## What's reported The Oppama site spans **1.7 million square meters** (~18.3M sq ft) and employs roughly **2,400 people**; it opened in 1961, built ~18 million vehicles over six decades, and launched the Nissan Leaf in 2010. It sits next to **Yokosuka naval base** — headquarters of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and home to the only forward-deployed U.S. Navy carrier strike group in the world. To demonstrate it could meet Japan's **domestic-content requirements**, Anduril built a prototype drone called **Kizuna** ("bond" in Japanese) using only Japanese components. ## Significance This is the clearest single instance of Anduril's [[Arsenal-1]] logic **exported into an allied country**: buy standardized automotive tooling and a mass-production workforce rather than build artisanal defense fabrication, and site it inside the buyer's borders to satisfy local-content rules. The plant's adjacency to Yokosuka makes it a geopolitical object, not just a real-estate transaction — a U.S. defense-tech firm proposing to manufacture drones next to the hub of allied and forward-deployed U.S. naval power in the Pacific. It pairs with Anduril's near-simultaneous push into Israel (late June 2026) as a second allied-market beachhead opening in the same window, and with the Seattle/Hyundai maritime build-out (see [[Anduril MASC Autonomous Warship Program]]) as evidence of a company scaling production geographically as fast as it is scaling capital. ## Open questions to track - Does a **purchase agreement** get signed, or does a competing buyer take Oppama? - Does **Japan's Ministry of Defense** place a drone procurement order — the reported precondition for Anduril committing to the plant? - If it proceeds, this graduates from talks to a completed acquisition and warrants a status upgrade here. ## See Also - [[Anduril]] - [[Nissan]] - [[Japan]] - [[Arsenal-1]] - [[Anduril MASC Autonomous Warship Program]] - [[Anduril Contracts]] - [[Anduril Events]] - [[Deals Hub]]