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原文：

Defense tech company Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the coastal town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.

The expanded campus will eventually support about 5,500 jobs. Luckey told TechCrunch that these will be new jobs, not transfers from other operations. Anduril’s headquarters is nearby, in Costa Mesa, California, and it also has a massive manufacturing facility in Ohio.

While bringing thousands of jobs to his childhood town made headlines today, Luckey said the most exciting part for him about Anduril’s general expansion was the fighter jets. "It looks like we’re going to be able to manufacture autonomous fighter jets that will take off right from the factory and fly to wherever the customer needs them," he said.

The Long Beach campus will span 1.18 million square feet across six buildings, combining office space and industrial areas dedicated to R&D.

Long Beach is "a major aerospace hub right in our backyard," Luckey told TechCrunch about why the company chose that location.

中譯：

國防科技公司安杜里爾週四宣布在南加州擴大布局的計畫，將於公司創辦人拉奇的家鄉海濱城市長灘，興建一座大型園區。

擴建後的園區最終將提供約5500個工作機會。拉奇向科技媒體《TechCrunch》表示，這些將是新增職位，而非從其他據點調派人力。安杜里爾的總部位於加州鄰近的科斯塔梅薩，並在俄亥俄州設有大型製造廠房。

儘管為他的家鄉帶來數千個工作機會成為當日焦點，但拉奇表示，對他而言，安杜里爾整體擴張中最令人興奮的部分其實是戰鬥機。他說：「看來我們將能夠製造自主作戰的戰鬥機，它們將直接從工廠起飛，飛往客戶需要的任何地方。」

長灘園區總面積將達118萬平方呎，涵蓋6棟建築，結合辦公空間與專注於研發的工業區。

拉奇向《TechCrunch》解釋選址原因時表示，長灘是「就在我們家門口的一個重要航太樞紐」。

—關鍵軍語—

※autonomous fighter jets：自主戰鬥機

※aerospace hub：航太樞紐