Zach Shore

Breaking into high-speed aviation isn’t easy. Hermeus is tackling some of the hardest engineering problems with a lean team and at an unprecedented pace. Our CEO, @Zsshore, joined Tyler Sweatt on the All Quiet on the Second Front podcast to discuss why we chose an ambitious path to developing high-Mach aircraft and how we're rethinking traditional development cycles to build fast planes fast. Catch the full episode below.

Never forget it was Bosnia who tried to take out Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines. #usmnt

.@traysartech emerged from stealth with $25M in seed funding led by @SilentVentures and a mission to—in the words of CEO Yadin Soffer—develop the ”technological solutions to enable US military supremacy in the subterranean domain.” tectonicdefense.com/traysar-emerge…

The U.S. Navy's top scientist set a new rule: if a company can make money building it, the Navy won't fund it. The $3B research budget is being redirected to tech only the military will ever need. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-resea…

We're proud to share the @USNavy has awarded Castelion a $23.4M fixed-price order for 50 Blackbeard Hypersonic weapons, our first delivery order for the program. The award marks an important step in Blackbeard's transition from development and flight testing toward operationally relevant production. "Blackbeard was designed from the beginning to support our nation's conventional deterrence," said @hargsb, our Co-Founder & CEO. Read more: castelion.com/news/u-s-navy-…

Sequoia’s @shaunmmaguire wrote a private hardware manifesto arguing that over the next 25 years, most of the money will be made in hardware: "Every software revolution is preceded by a hardware revolution." "To have the iOS App Store that enabled Uber, DoorDash, and all of these great companies - you needed to have the iPhone." "This AI revolution - we're seeing what it can do from the software layer, but it's still limited by hardware." "The hardware we were doing for a long time was all following Moore's Law. It was all branching out of this decision in the mid-1950s to go all in on the silicon supply chain." "That has created magic, and there's still a couple orders of magnitude of juice to squeeze, but we’re hitting fundamental physics limits - Dennard scaling, things like that." "I think this tech tree is branching into humanoid robots, into silicon photonics, into orbital data centers - all of these new hardware areas where there's going to be 20+ years of progress." "There's going to be incredible businesses built on the back of this. And a lot of dumpster fires." From his appearance on the show in March.

ICYMI: We flew supersonic, and @Zsshore is in his first week as CEO. He had some feedback. Introducing “Supersonic: Overdrive Edition” 🤘

Thanks to Ethan Klein, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, for stopping by our new LA headquarters. @USCTO47 We gave him a look at our growing R&D operation in LA and the work underway to build fast planes even faster.

DIU recently marked another milestone achievement in its pursuit of affordable and scalable group 5 UAS to deliver combat capability. We successfully completed the first supersonic flight of the Quarterhouse Mk 2.1 multi mach reusable aircraft (MMRA). The supersonic flight demonstrates DIU’s unique ability to work with commercial industry to deliver real-world impact for the DoW at unmatched speed. Hermeus was awarded its first DIU prototype contract in November 2023 after selection under the HyCAT Hypersonics commercial solutions opening. Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 reached supersonic speeds less than three months after its first flight. The MMRA serves primarily as a technology risk reduction for achieving Mach 3  flight and high-speed payload release. Attributes of the MMRA architecture align with the DoW’s priorities for speed, affordability, scale, and lethality, with designs that leverage commercially available components, resilient supply chains, abundant structural materials such as stainless steel, and existing aerospace maintenance ecosystems. Photos courtesy of @hermeuscorp.