Offshore Energy: Regular resupply and cargo runs to oil, gas and wind platforms on schedule, without crew exposure over water, and at low cost.
Freight: Heavy, time-sensitive freight flown between hubs, ports and distribution points to locations fixed-wing aircraft can’t reach.
Humanitarian and Medical Cargo: Emergency supply into disaster zones, wildfire logistics and time-sensitive therapies flown direct from freight hubs to hospitals in a single flight.
Maritime: Long-range autonomous operations in support of maritime missions.
Highlighting this demand, Archer announced Marubeni Aerospace Corporation as a strategic launch partner for Halo.
Anduril to take all of that knowledge and build something new: a clean-sheet aircraft in a completely different class of range, speed and payload. I believe this is the most sophisticated vertical lift aircraft platform ever developed—it’s exactly what our customers need,” said Adam Goldstein, founder and CEO of Archer.
Platform Capabilities
Halo brings together capabilities no existing unmanned aircraft combines:
• Long range, high speed: Enough range to reach remote and offshore sites, with the speed available when necessary.
• Heavy payload: Carries what the job demands in a modular payload bay configurable per use case.
•
Series hybrid-electric propulsion: Delivers energy efficient, low-noise flight while lowering operating cost
per operators.
• Autonomous: No pilot means lower cost, no human exposure on hazardous missions and higher utilization for more missions per day per airframe
• VTOL: Takes off and lands vertically for access to locations without a runway.
Commercial Opportunity
Halo arrives amid a growing need for commercial
logistics to move heavy
payloads long distances, fast, into places with no runway, at a fraction of the cost of legacy platforms.
mission for commercial
Marubeni Aerospace is engaged in business development in the aviation and space fields. It is a subsidiary of the aerospace and mobility arm of Marubeni Corporation, one of Japan’s largest general trading companies. It has long- standing experience as a specialized trading company in the aviation sector, representing major international aircraft and helicopter manufacturers. The partnership will focus on joint market research, use-case identification and the future introduction of Halo.
“Currently, even in cargo transport operations that do not require onboard crew, flights are conducted with human pilots, absorbing the cost, scheduling constraints and human exposure that come with it,” said Satoru Nakagawa, president and CEO, Marubeni Aerospace Corporation. “Halo’s unmanned, autonomous flight capabilities can address these challenges, and combined with its excellent range, payload capacity and VTOL capability, make it a highly suitable solution that we are pleased to introduce and support for our customers as a first strategic partner.”
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