{"id":"5015c642-9406-4519-8586-50eb786c8386","companyId":"48ee189e-a232-4fa6-aa8f-8e116a7a6be4","modelName":"Archer","slug":"neros-archer","description":"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.","formFactor":"aerial","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (gating events for so new a company)","value":"Neros Technologies (founded 2023; HQ Los Angeles + Ukraine office; CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson, ex-pro drone-racer; backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund circle, Vy Capital; $75M Series B Sequoia-led Nov 2025, $120M+ total). Selected for US Army PBAS (Purpose-Built Attritable Systems) Tranche 1 as one of three primary FPV makers (Nov 2025); multi-million USMC Archer Strike contract (Dec 2025); ~6,000 Archers fielded to Ukraine via the Ramstein drone coalition (~1,500/month)."},{"label":"AI-substance: REMOTELY-PILOTED FPV, NOT autonomous (honest)","value":"Archer is a human-piloted first-person-view drone, not autonomous. Series-B funds are earmarked for R&D into autonomous systems - aspirational, not fielded. Classify as remotely-piloted manual FPV today."},{"label":"CORRECTION (program framing)","value":"The often-cited 'Replicator' tie is NOT borne out; the verified program is the Army PBAS (plus DIU/Marine). Recorded as PBAS, not Replicator."},{"label":"Maturity = commercial (cap-flag the aspirations)","value":"Real product + named DoD program selection + Marine contract + combat fielding at ~1,500/month clears the fielded-systems + named-contract gate -> commercial (early). DO NOT grant aspirational scale: 10,000/month by end-2025 and 1M/yr are claims, not achieved. PBAS total $ value / quantity / timeline NOT disclosed (cap-flag); contract $ amounts 'multi-million' undisclosed."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"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","title":"US Army selects Neros Archer FPV + Flatbow for the PBAS program (Nov 2025)","sourceName":"Neros (Business Wire)"},{"url":"https://www.army-technology.com/news/neros-us-army-fpv-contract/","title":"Neros US Army FPV contract + $75M Series B (Sequoia-led)","sourceName":"Army Technology"},{"url":"https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/07/03/made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break/","title":"Made-in-America drone maker Neros (LA; CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson)","sourceName":"Defense News"},{"url":"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","title":"Neros supplies ~1,000-1,500 Archer FPV/month to Ukraine; ~6,000 delivered","sourceName":"Defense Express"}],"aliases":["Neros Archer","Archer Strike"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T20:35:43.060Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T20:35:43.060Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/neros-archer","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/neros-archer","name":"Archer","alternateName":["Neros Archer","Archer Strike"],"description":"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.","identifier":"5015c642-9406-4519-8586-50eb786c8386","category":"aerial","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}