Monday
July 20th
2026
6:50AM

One aircraft. Many missions.

Introducing our dual-use autonomous, series hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft platform. Jointly developed with @anduril over the last two years.

The global shift towards scaled autonomy will drive demand, but a dual-use platform is critical to build a broad supply chain that can deliver at the scale and cost needed.

Defense is moving from exquisite, expensive VTOL aircraft to autonomous “loyal wingman” systems fielded at scale without putting crews at risk. Commercial operators need to deliver payloads over long distances, fast, into places without a runway, without a crew, and at low cost.

Today at Farnborough, Anduril unveils Thunder, the defense variant of the platform. Later this week, we’ll share more about the commercial variant.

Pictured:

Anduril’s defense variant, Thunder (black livery), and

Archer’s commercial variant (white livery)