Palmer Luckey, the billionaire CEO of defense startup Anduril, is on a mission to equip the United States for the future of warfare—or at least his own, deeply sci-fi-inflected vision of that future. That includes the raising of genetically modified dogs outfitted with Anduril’s own technology.

Warhound, a Texas-based company that emerged from stealth late Thursday with $200 million in seed funding, wants to create four-legged super soldiers for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and first responders. It’s built upon a partnership between Anduril and Colossal Biosciences, the U.S.-based genetic engineering lab that revived the dire wolf from extinction and is trying to do the same thing to the wooly mammoth .

Cloned from “America’s top-performing dog arsenal,” Warhound’s military pups will be genetically modified “with characteristics suited to demanding missions,” according to a press release .…