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Robot model

Archer

Neros Technologies, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles with a Ukraine office, makes the Archer, a first-person-view strike quadcopter, under chief executive and co-founder Soren Monroe-Anderson, a former professional drone racer, and is backed by Sequoia Capital and the Founders Fund circle with a 75-million-dollar Series B in November 2025 and more than 120 million dollars raised. The Archer is an eight-inch-class FPV drone with twelve-plus miles of range and a 4.5-pound payload, with an Archer Strike variant engaging beyond twenty kilometers, and Neros is one of few FPV makers meeting Defense Innovation Unit China-free supply-chain rules. Its verified gating events are strong for so new a company: selection for the US Army's Purpose-Built Attritable Systems program Tranche 1 in November 2025 as one of three primary FPV makers, a multi-million-dollar Marine Corps Archer Strike contract in December 2025, and roughly 6,000 Archers fielded to Ukraine via the Ramstein drone coalition at about 1,500 per month. Honestly characterized, the Archer is a human-piloted first-person-view drone and not autonomous, with Series-B funds earmarked for autonomy research that is aspirational rather than fielded. A framing correction worth recording: the often-cited Replicator tie is not borne out, and the verified program is Army PBAS plus Marine and DIU work. The registry records it at early commercial maturity, since real product plus named contracts plus combat fielding clears the gate, but it deliberately does not grant the aspirational scale figures of ten thousand per month or a million per year, and the PBAS total value, quantity, and timeline are undisclosed.

Archer is an aerial robot built by Neros.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
aerial
Maturity stage
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
5015c642-9406-4519-8586-50eb786c8386

Specs

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specs
Archer: FPV strike quadcopter, ~8-inch class, range 12+ miles, payload 4.5 lb. Archer Strike variant: engagement range beyond 20 km. FPV-operated (human pilot via first-person view), NOT autonomous. One of few FPV makers meeting DoD/DIU China-free supply-chain rules (Made-in-America). Current production ~1,500/month (~18,000/yr).
formFactor
aerial (FPV strike quadcopter; remotely-piloted first-person-view attritable drone)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (4)

  1. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251106525503/en/U.S.-Army-Selects-Neros-Archer-FPV-and-Flatbow-Ground-Control-System-for-Purpose-Built-Attritable-Systems-PBAS-Program
  2. https://www.army-technology.com/news/neros-us-army-fpv-contract/
  3. https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/07/03/made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break/
  4. https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/neros_supplies_a_thousand_fpv_drones_to_ukraine_monthly_wants_to_make_a_million_yearly-15052.html

Common questions

What is Archer?
Neros Technologies, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles with a Ukraine office, makes the Archer, a first-person-view strike quadcopter, under chief executive and co-founder Soren Monroe-Anderson, a former professional drone racer, and is backed by Sequoia Capital and the Founders Fund circle with a 75-million-dollar Series B in November 2025 and more than 120 million dollars raised. The Archer is an eight-inch-class FPV drone with twelve-plus miles of range and a 4.5-pound payload, with an Archer Strike variant engaging beyond twenty kilometers, and Neros is one of few FPV makers meeting Defense Innovation Unit China-free supply-chain rules. Its verified gating events are strong for so new a company: selection for the US Army's Purpose-Built Attritable Systems program Tranche 1 in November 2025 as one of three primary FPV makers, a multi-million-dollar Marine Corps Archer Strike contract in December 2025, and roughly 6,000 Archers fielded to Ukraine via the Ramstein drone coalition at about 1,500 per month. Honestly characterized, the Archer is a human-piloted first-person-view drone and not autonomous, with Series-B funds earmarked for autonomy research that is aspirational rather than fielded. A framing correction worth recording: the often-cited Replicator tie is not borne out, and the verified program is Army PBAS plus Marine and DIU work. The registry records it at early commercial maturity, since real product plus named contracts plus combat fielding clears the gate, but it deliberately does not grant the aspirational scale figures of ten thousand per month or a million per year, and the PBAS total value, quantity, and timeline are undisclosed.
Who makes Archer?
Archer is made by Neros, based in Los Angeles, California, USA, founded in 2023.
Where is Archer deployed?
No verified deployments of Archer are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Archer's maturity stage?
Archer is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.