Taiwan is moving faster than nearly any other country to build cheap, hard-to-counter weapons, and Anduril is tapping Taiwan's manufacturing strengths to help — good news for Taiwan's defense and for Western allies looking for mass-produced munitions.

• Palmer Luckey's deterrence idea for the Taiwan Strait is simple: make Taiwan too costly for China to take, so Beijing decides it is not worth attacking.
• Anduril and Taiwan's state weapons lab (NCSIST) are jointly producing the low-cost Barracuda-500 cruise missile and underwater drones in Taiwan.
• Anduril just signed a large co-production deal for the same missile with Poland and is about to announce another with a third country, aiming to make the Barracuda-500 a standard weapon across Europe, Asia, and North America.
• The plan is to turn "car factories into bomber factories": Taiwan already makes precision machine parts and cheap, tough carbon fiber better than the U.S., and the machines that build most of the world's carbon-fiber bikes are nearly the same ones needed for carbon-fiber drones and missiles.
• Designing weapons that existing factories, equipment, and workers can build is the only way to reach mass production.

Outlook: Expect more co-production deals for the Barracuda-500 and a growing role for Taiwan's civilian manufacturing base in arming both itself and Western allies.