Autonomous lift for contested logistics.
LuftCar brings autonomous vertical-lift aircraft, rapidly deployable vertiports, and AI mission planning into one platform — built to sustain distributed operations for allied and partner forces where runways, fuel convoys, and fixed depots cannot be relied on.
US Patent
Air-to-road docking granted (12,084,177 B2)
TRL 4
Scaled prototype & docking validated
19-vehicle
Purchase order secured
DEVCOM-led
Defense strategy led by a former US Army director
Fixed infrastructure is the vulnerability.
Contested logistics is now a design assumption, not an edge case. Runways, fuel convoys, and fixed depots are targets, and the forces that keep moving will be the ones whose lift and basing can disperse, displace, and power themselves.
Crew and convoys are exposed
Rotary-wing resupply and ground convoys concentrate risk on predictable routes and prepared sites — the first things an adversary finds on a map in a denied or A2/AD environment.
Distributed operations outrun fixed basing
Dispersed-operations doctrine asks units to spread across many austere sites and relocate often, but every new site needs survey, power, and defensible communications before the first aircraft lands — work measured in weeks with conventional construction.
Energy is the second bind
Forward locations run on fuel delivered by the same vulnerable convoys, while resupply, casualty evacuation, and ISR support all compete for the same scarce rotary-wing lift.
One integrated system, not a single aircraft.
Unlike single-vehicle programs, LuftCar closes the logistics gap with the aircraft, the landing site, and the mission planning as one platform.
Meethu & Sid — autonomous eVTOL aircraft
Long-range, heavy-payload, autonomous VTOL airframes engineered for demanding government missions. Meethu's patented air-to-road docking lets a single asset fly the contested gap and continue by road. Sid extends the line into longer-range, heavy-lift cargo missions — a ~500-mile range and ~4,500 lb payload at TRL 5.
Explore the aircraftSkyBase™ — forward-deployable vertiport
Dual-use vertiport infrastructure that arrives like cargo: ISO intermodal and C-17 air-transportable modules that go from flatpack to live operations in days with a small crew, hardened for the threat environment and powered by an off-grid microgrid.
Explore SkyBase™SkyPAATH™ — AI mission planning
Software-only airspace and mission planning at TRL 7+: demand forecasting, route optimization, and multi-domain airspace deconfliction that links logistics assets into one operating picture.
Explore SkyPAATH™Built for the way the fight actually moves.
Zero-crew autonomous
Autonomous by design — no aircrew exposed on the forward logistics leg.
VTOL, no runway
Vertical takeoff and landing removes the dependence on prepared runways and fixed airfields.
Air-to-road docking
A patented docking system deploys a ground vehicle from air to road — a capability no other eVTOL program offers.
Infrastructure-independent basing
SkyBase™ stands up an austere airfield on unprepared ground, off-grid, in days rather than months.
Energy at the point of need
A resilient microgrid with hybrid, hydrogen/SAF fuel-cell, and solar options charges aircraft where there is no grid to fall back on.
Multi-domain planning
SkyPAATH™ deconflicts airspace and links military, commercial, and space assets into one mission picture.
One platform, many missions.
Contested resupply
Move materiel across denied ground to dispersed sites without exposing convoys or aircrew — many small sorties are harder to target than a few large movements.
CASEVAC & medical resupply
The medical/air-ambulance use case is validated by a Letter of Intent from AdventHealth, directly applicable to forward casualty evacuation and blood/medical resupply.
Homeland security & border
Homeland security sits in the aircraft's core mission set; ISR-compatible landing and charging sites place persistent coverage where the grid ends.
Disaster response
The same resilient basing and lift that sustain forward operations extend to domestic disaster relief and defense support to civil authorities.
Keeps moving when the network doesn't.
The defense configuration is built around operating through degraded and denied conditions — comms, GPS, and airspace all contested.
PACE-compliant autonomous fallback
Each aircraft carries a pre-loaded mission plan that continues independently when the coordination link is severed, transitioning through Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency connectivity states without operator intervention.
Single-operator coordination at the edge
A single operator can assign mission parameters to multiple autonomous aircraft from one interface — coordination logic that runs on a local device rather than depending on cloud or higher-echelon links.
Threat-aware routing
SkyPAATH™ route optimization plans and updates flight paths around A2/AD zones, EW-contested sectors, and denied airspace, keeping the operator at standoff distance from the threat.
Proven science, novel integration.
LuftCar's approach integrates technologies already proven or fielded, so the novelty is in the integration — not in unproven physics.
Tiltrotor aerodynamics
Matured on operational tiltrotor programs (V-22 Osprey, Bell V-280 Valor).
Autonomous flight control
Fielded on operational unmanned systems (RQ-7 Shadow, MQ-1C Gray Eagle).
Hybrid-electric propulsion
Demonstrated on hybrid-electric aviation testbeds across industry.
AI mission planning
SkyPAATH™ at TRL 7+, validated in FAA and state DOT (eIPP) programs.
Air-to-road docking
LuftCar core IP — scaled prototype validated at TRL 4 (our innovation).
Led by people who have run these programs.
Traction that de-risks the program.
A transition pathway for allied programs.
LuftCar's platform is designed to support allied modernization priorities in contested logistics, long-range operations, and future vertical lift — with a primary market focus on the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Specific solicitation and program alignment is developed with each partner.