US startup founded by former teenage drone racers just won one of the Pentagon's biggest small-drone deals — Neros has shipped tens of thousands of UAVs to Ukraine and inked a $500M contract

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  • A startup founded by former teenage drone-racing champions won a US Army contract worth up to $500 million for its FPV attack drones
  • This marks the Pentagon's largest small-drone contract ever, running up till 2031 even as it grapples with taking on Chinese-built drones and components with a much smaller manufacturing base
  • This contract allows Neros to push for a 250,000 sq ft factory targeting one million drones annually by 2028

Neros Technologies, founded in 2023 by former teenage drone-racing prodigies Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa, has won a US Army indefinite-delivery contract worth up to $500 million for its Archer FPV attack drones.

The contract runs through June 2031 and is among the largest of its kind. It comes off the back of tens of thousands of deliveries to Ukraine under a multinational drone-coalition contract. Neros maintains a Kyiv office supporting the country's war effort, where the Archer serves...

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