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eVTOL Aircraft Developer Archer Aviation Partners With Anduril On Hybrid Version For Defense

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

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eVTOL Aircraft Developer Archer Aviation Partners With Anduril On Hybrid Version For Defense

Archer Aviation's Midnight eVTOL aircraft in hover mode. Photo: Archer Aviation

Archer Aviation [ACHR] and Anduril Industries on Thursday said they are in an exclusive partnership to jointly develop a next-generation hybrid-propulsion vertical takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for defense applications with the goal being to get to a program of record with the Defense Department. The announcement said the agreement is for hybrid VTOL aircraft and the first product will be a hybrid-propulsion powered aircraft. Archer has been developing an eVTOL aircraft it calls Midnight, and in August it delivered one to…

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