Military Midnight: 5 Fast Facts On The New Archer & Anduril VTOL For The US DOD
Archer and Anduril have announced a partnership to develop a hybrid VTOL military aircraft for the US military. The Air Force is already one of the main investors in Archer's eVTOL aircraft. Another major investor is United Airlines (which is also one of the first to order the future Boom Overture supersonic passenger jet currently in development ). The think tank, Rand, recently recommended that the United States Air Force invest into investing in eVTOL aircraft and said they have a number of uses (mostly transportation around bases and not for deployment).
The Air Force also tasked Joby Aviation to supply an experimental eVTOL aircraft (delivered in September 2023). This was part of the Air Force's Agility Prime program that seeks to "hardness commercial offerings with military applications through investment in emerging technologies such as transformative vertical lift, distributed electric propulsion, electric, hybrid-electric, hydrogen, and other novel power generation sources."