Hover airlift logistics operations guided expeditionary autonomous scalable and modular VTOL platform

A vertical take-off and landing aircraft, comprising:

• a body having a circular shape extending horizontally to a circular outer edge, the body defining a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface including a circular lip which is located at a lowest position of the aircraft, the bottom surface further including a concave portion surrounded by the circular lip;
• a cockpit disposed in a center region of the body;
• a first plurality of through tunnels defined inside the body and arranged around the center region of the body, each of the first plurality of tunnels extending substantially vertically through the body between the top surface and the concave portion of the bottom surface;
• a second plurality of through tunnels defined inside the body, each of the second plurality of tunnels extending substantially parallel to a horizontal front-back direction of the body between a front end and a rear end of the body;
• a third plurality of through tunnels defined inside the body, each of the third plurality of tunnels extending in a direction which is neither substantially vertical nor substantially parallel to the horizontal front-back direction of the body, each of the third plurality of tunnels having an upper opening located on the top surface of the body and a side opening;
• a plurality of propelling devices, wherein each propelling device is completely contained within one of the first, second and third plurality of tunnels, and wherein each propelling device is fixedly mounted to the body to generate propulsion in a fixed direction relative to the aircraft;
• a passthrough tunnel defined inside the body and located below the cockpit, having a horizontally elongated cross-sectional shape and extending horizontally in the front-back direction of the body from an inlet adjacent to a leading edge of the circular outer edge of the body to an outlet adjacent a trailing edge of the circular outer edge of the body without other openings, wherein the passthrough tunnel is free of any propelling devices;
• and
• control equipment disposed inside the body and coupled to the plurality of propelling devices, configured to control the plurality of propelling devices.