# Taiwan Anduril Altius Drone Contract On **August 27, 2026**, [[Taiwan]]'s Ministry of National Defense posted, through the government e-procurement system, a contract worth approximately **NT$26.9 billion (~US$847 million)** for **2,032 [[Anduril Altius]] airframes** — **1,554 Altius-700M** loitering munitions and **478 Altius-600ISR** reconnaissance drones — plus launch equipment and associated systems. First deliveries are expected in **Q4 2026**; the full order completes by **June 2033**. The systems go to Taiwanese Army units dedicated to drone warfare, supporting strike, ISR, target designation and electronic-warfare missions. > **This is a signed contract with a delivery schedule, not an approval ceiling.** It is the opposite > case from [[Anduril Kuwait Counter-UAS FMS Approval]], where a $1.98B State Department notification > authorized a sale that has not been negotiated. Here the money, the quantities and the dates are > committed. It should be read as booked backlog, not as demand signal. ## Terms | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Contract posted | **August 27, 2026** (Taiwan MND e-procurement system) | | Value | **NT$26.9 billion ≈ US$847 million** | | Altius-700M | **1,554** loitering munitions | | Altius-600ISR | **478** reconnaissance drones | | Also included | Launch equipment and associated systems | | First deliveries | **Q4 2026** | | Completion | **June 2033** | | End user | Taiwanese Army drone-defense units | ## Why it matters **It is the largest Anduril export order on record.** At ~$847M it exceeds the $363M CBP Sentry tower award and every other disclosed Anduril contract except the A$1.7B Australian [[Anduril Ghost Shark]] program. For a private company whose valuation case rests on displacing legacy primes, an international customer committing near a billion dollars on a seven-year schedule is a different quality of evidence than a domestic sole-source award. **Taiwan bought the variant that failed in Ukraine.** The bulk of the order — 1,554 of 2,032 airframes — is the **Altius-700M**, the heavier-warhead strike variant of the family whose earlier 600M model Ukrainian SBU forces **suspended in 2024** after repeated crashes and missed targets caused by Russian electronic warfare. That failure is the single largest public black mark on Anduril's combat record and is documented on [[Anduril Altius]]. Taiwan is betting, at scale and with its own money, that the EW vulnerability has been engineered out. **First deliveries in Q4 2026 are the first test of that bet**, and Taiwan's own procurement notice lists electronic-warfare missions among the intended uses. **The delivery tail is the risk.** Completion in **June 2033** means roughly $120M of revenue a year and — more consequentially — that Anduril's largest export relationship is a seven-year commitment to a customer whose sovereignty is the most likely trigger for a US–China war. A cross-strait crisis before 2033 does not merely interrupt the contract; it converts it into a wartime supply obligation. This is the asymmetric-defense logic the U.S. has pushed on Taipei — flooding the strait with cheap autonomous munitions — arriving as a private-company balance-sheet item. **Beijing has already sanctioned the counterparty.** China sanctioned both [[Anduril]] and [[Palmer Luckey]] personally over the earlier Taiwan sales. This contract is roughly an order of magnitude larger than the deal that triggered those sanctions. ## Context — what this follows This is Taiwan's **second** and much larger Altius purchase. The first was a June 2024 Foreign Military Sale of **291 Altius-600M** units; deliveries began August 2025 and the final batch arrived in **March 2026**. The new contract is roughly **seven times** that quantity and moves the relationship from an FMS case brokered by Washington to a direct procurement posted by Taipei. ## Collection note The primary source is the Taiwan MND e-procurement posting as reported by *Taiwan News* on August 27; that page is not fetchable from the build environment, so the figures here rest on four independent secondary reports that agree on quantity, split, value and dates. ## See Also - [[Anduril Altius]] — the weapon system, including the 2024 Ukraine failure - [[Anduril]] — company record - [[Anduril Contracts]] — ledger - [[Taiwan]] - [[Palmer Luckey]] - [[Anduril Ghost Shark]] — the larger allied program - [[Anduril Kuwait Counter-UAS FMS Approval]] — the approval-not-contract counterexample - [[Autonomous Weapons Debate]] - [[Deals Hub]]