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Zach

@Zsshore

President @Hermeuscorp | early @Anduriltech | IRQ/AFG veteran | Surf mogul @EnchiladasSurf | PHI sports slave

Присоединился Aralık 2012
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Zach
Zach@Zsshore·
Series C complete. Time to fly fast.
AJ Piplica@AJ_Piplica

Today @hermeuscorp is announcing a $350M Series C financing led by @khoslaventures, bringing our valuation to $1B. Everything we do is with one goal in mind: build the fastest unmanned aircraft in the world for the American warfighter. To our investors, thank you for your faith and trust in us. To our team, you continue to amaze me with your ingenuity, commitment, and fire for tackling some of the hardest and most meaningful problems in aerospace. To those who want to build the fastest aircraft in the world - we’re hiring. This is a return to the roots of American innovation. More from me here: hermeus.com/newsroom-conte…

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Molly O’Shea
Molly O’Shea@MollySOShea·
Ross @fubini says “There are only ~40 people in the entire US that are able to sell products to the government, period.” "The most rarefied skill is the ability to do that effectively.. you're: - @ssankar, Palantir - Matt Steckman, @anduriltech - Zach Shore, @hermeuscorp - Scott Sanders, @ForterraDrive You very quickly get to the end of the list."
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Zach
Zach@Zsshore·
@insidedefense Whoa a whole $10k?! This changes everything!
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Inside Defense@insidedefense·
Pentagon launches $10K Lethality Prize Challenge in line with $1B drone program ow.ly/1sKh106wIU4
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Luke Metro
Luke Metro@luke_metro·
Defense tech seed pitch: we have one guy who used to work at anduril Defense tech series C pitch: our existing VCs control the government
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Eliot Pence
Eliot Pence@EliotPence·
The question I get asked more than anything (besides why do you look so angry in your photograph) is: why do you have an upside-down plane on your Twitter handle? Part of it goes back to time I spent in the Mojave when I was at Cambium, around places where these kinds of ideas were first tested. In the 1970s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works built a strange, faceted aircraft based on obscure Soviet math about electromagnetic scattering, the “Hopeless Diamond.” To prove it worked, they mounted a model on a pole and pointed radar at it. The radar operators thought the aircraft had fallen off. All they could see was the pole. Instead of celebrating, the response was: eliminate the pole. So they did, engineering a test pylon with an almost nonexistent radar signature just to prove the original idea. The first stealth breakthrough didn’t start with a plane. It started with a pole. We’re living that exact dynamic in the Arctic with Dominion Dynamics. People ask whether the mesh network works, whether the sensor can see, whether the system survives at -40. Those are the airplane questions. But before you can answer them, you end up solving everything around them: power systems that last through months of darkness, batteries that don’t fracture in extreme cold, connectors that survive freeze-thaw cycles, RF behavior over ice and inversion layers, installation in places with no infrastructure, data exfiltration from under ice, systems operable with gloves in high wind. Before you prove the system, you solve dozens, then hundreds, of smaller problems that make the test itself possible. That’s the part people miss. If you want to do something truly ambitious, you don’t just build the thing. You build the conditions that make it provable, usable, and real. And more often than not, that’s the harder problem. Start with the pole.
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Zach
Zach@Zsshore·
This is a massive indictment of the way the @DeptofWar develops and scales NEW technology.
Madeline Hart@Madeline_Zimm

"The only major system designed in the last 15 years that has been used in combat [Operation Epic Fury] is LUCAS — which we had to reverse engineer!" @PeteModi Many of these old platforms have had glow ups in recent years, but still - it's very bad that we don't design and deploy new systems regularly Hard hitting graphic from Defense Tech and Acquisition Substack

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Owen West
Owen West@OwenWest91·
Five years ago, our founders and free capital markets anticipated a shift in defense to cheap fires and unmanned systems. The moment is here. Non-traditional defense companies must become an enduring bulwark.
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Zach
Zach@Zsshore·
Flight. Up next, supersonic.
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Hermeus
Hermeus@hermeuscorp·
Live from New Mexico...it’s the Hermeus Podcast: Spaceport Edition. Our CEO and President sit down outside the hangar with a few members of the broader Quarterhorse team to talk through the road to first flight for Quarterhorse 2.1. 👉 Watch here: youtu.be/v5z5Vwug0uY
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Hermeus
Hermeus@hermeuscorp·
Meet Quarterhorse Mk 2.1: an F-16-sized jet built to break the sound barrier. It’s the first of three jets in the Mk 2 lineup. Instead of waiting years between tests, we build and fly them in rapid succession. Real data from one flight feeds directly into the next, letting us steadily push the limits of speed and performance. Mk 2.1 will fly supersonic. Mk 2.2 will go even faster. Subsequent phases like 2.3 will continue to push toward Hermeus’ end goal of unlocking sustained ramjet-powered flight and delivering operational hypersonic capability for the United States — this decade. Step by step, this is how Hermeus builds the world’s fastest aircraft.
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Hermeus
Hermeus@hermeuscorp·
America needs fast planes fast. We're headed to Colorado this coming week for the AFA Warfare Symposium. Stop by our booth to talk hardware, high-Mach flight, and what’s coming next. 📍Booth #635
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