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 listed at $2,000 to $5,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an analyst estimate, not an official price.

Yes. Archer is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Archer is made by Neros, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA, founded in 2023.

2 verified deployments of Archer are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Ukraine, El Segundo.

Archer is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable aerial robots to Archer include Wing Delivery Aircraft, Skydio X10, Zipline Platform 2 (P2), Prime Air MK30.

Archer and Wing Delivery Aircraft (Wing · 35 deployments) are both aerial robots on the DEPLOY registry. Archer has 2 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Archer ranks in roughly the top 20% of aerial models tracked by the registry.

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.

Archer has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.