Palladyne AI Corp. (Nasdaq: PDYN and PDYNW) subsidiary, GuideTech (“Palladyne AI”) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to develop an air-launched, near hypersonic long-range, low cost missile (“Air-Launched Rapid Response Missile” or “ALRRM”). The ALRRM is expected to deliver nearly hypersonic speed and long range at a fraction of the cost of other air-breathing hypersonic weapons, meeting the Department of War’s recent call for affordability without compromising capability. The ALRRM is designed to exceed 350 nautical mile flight distance at high altitude, with a sustained cruise speed of beyond the required Mach 4.0, and designed to deliver a 150 lb warhead using an air-breathing solid fuel ramjet (“SFRJ”). It is also designed to meet the designated size and weight requirements.
“The 2025 National Security Strategy explicitly states that the U.S. must build ‘next-generation missiles with a clear and urgent need for cost-effective, high-performance strike capabilities’ for the U.S. military,” said Ben Wolff, President and CEO, Palladyne AI. “As identified by the U.S. Navy and evidenced by our recently awarded contract, the ALRRM system is designed to address this need — delivering near hypersonic speed and range at a fraction of the cost. We believe there is no other missile currently available to the U.S. military that combines the speed, range, and payload capacity of the ALRRM, at this size and price point — creating a new strike class for 5th gen fighters that is stealth-borne, near-hypersonic, and deep-theater strike.”
About Palladyne AI Corp.
Palladyne AI is a U.S.-based technology company developing patented embodied artificial intelligence, collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, autonomous systems, advanced UAV engineering services, and precision-manufactured components for defense and industrial markets. Palladyne AI delivers secure, American-developed and operated platforms designed to meet the stringent requirements of U.S. government and public-sector customers, including data sovereignty, security, and compliance.
Palladyne AI’s embodied AI is designed to operate in complex, contested, and high-risk environments, enabling distributed tasking, human-on-the-loop decision-making, degraded-communications resilience, and multi-domain coordination. Its platform-agnostic autonomy stack combines real-time sensor fusion, adaptive AI models, and edge-native orchestration to support autonomous and collaborative systems across air, ground, maritime, and industrial domains where performance, resilience, and trust are paramount. For more information about Palladyne AI, including GuideTech and Palladyne Defense,
