Hauler

Hauler is Aergility’s heavy-lift autonomous VTOL cargo aircraft concept for contested logistics, civil freight, and humanitarian missions. The scalable platform uses Aergility’s managed-autorotation architecture to combine vertical access with fixed-wing cruise efficiency and targets payloads above 500 pounds over ranges beyond 500 miles.

Facts

  • Company: Aergility
  • Type: Heavy Lift Cargo Drone
  • Core: Long-range autonomous VTOL logistics
  • Function: Runway-free heavy cargo transport
  • Audience: Logistics and humanitarian teams
  • Status: Development
  • Website: https://www.aergility.com/aergility-models

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About Hauler

Hauler is Aergility's heavy-lift autonomous VTOL cargo-aircraft concept for civil freight, humanitarian missions and contested logistics. The design uses managed autorotation to combine vertical access with wing-borne cruise and targets payloads above 500 pounds over ranges beyond 500 miles.

Those figures are programme targets. Hauler remains in development, with performance and operational status requiring flight-test and production evidence.

Specifications

  • Range Miles: 500+ mile target range
  • Max Speed: More than 120 mph target speed
  • Product Status: Conceptual development
  • Payload Capacity Kg: At least 226.8 kg useful payload

Market context

Logistics and humanitarian teams

  • Peer Group: Heavy-Lift Drone

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Capabilities

  • Target markets: Defense, Enterprise, Humanitarian
  • Control modes: Autonomous Flight
  • Deployment model: Containerized

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