Two years ago, @PalmerLuckey came to me with a concept for an autonomous, dual-use loyal wingman for attack reconnaissance helicopters. @anduriltech had been looking for a partner that had the right VTOL and advanced aviation team to design and build it alongside them. I said HELL YEAH! Since then, our teams have been designing this aircraft together. Archer took our eight years of aircraft design, powertrain, and manufacturing knowledge from the commercial program and put it into something new: a clean-sheet, dual-use aircraft platform. We developed it from first principles because you can't take an existing eVTOL aircraft built for an air taxi mission and tweak it for a substantially different one. We’re at Farnborough today with Anduril showing the world what we’ve been working on: Thunder, Anduril’s defense variant of this new platform. It’s badass. We’ll share more about the commercial variant (pictured here in the white livery) later this week. The team has already been test flying a full-scale surrogate of Thunder, and we plan to get the first platform prototype in the air next year. Proud of the team. This is just the beginning. archer.com/news/anduril-and-…