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Rahim Amir

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

Drones for mobile networks.
  • 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.

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