Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE: ACHR) says it agreed to supply Anduril Industries and EDGE Group with Archer’s dual use electric powertrain technology to be used in drones under development for the United Arab Emirates. Financial details were not released.
The UAE has committed to an initial acquisition of 50 systems named Omen, creating an established demand signal for the Omen system and Archer’s powertrain technology, the San Jose-based company said in a statement released yesterday.
“We’ve been working on Omen for more than five years. By combining the Archer team’s expertise in powertrain technology with a little bit of Anduril magic, we’ve been able to mature our propulsion solution to achieve the ranges, speeds, and payload capacity we need to make Omen operationally relevant for a variety of dual-use mission sets,” Shane Arnott, Anduril’s SVP of Engineering, said in the statement.
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