CEO @Hermeuscorp | early @Anduriltech | IRQ/AFG veteran | Surf mogul @EnchiladasSurf | PHI sports slave
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Meet our next Quarterhorse: Mk 2.2.
Powered by an upgraded propulsion system with new avionics, spike inlet, and additional fuel capacity, our most capable aircraft yet is moving into its flight campaign to Mach 2+.
The future belongs to those who build it - faster and faster.
The lessons from Ukraine cannot and should not be the lessons for the pacific.
What can't drones do in the Pacific?
"Cheap standoff weapons have three primary shortfalls. First, the sheer volume of weapons required to achieve a desired effect is, paradoxically, prohibitively expensive unless they are employed in tandem with other capabilities. Second, even extended-range attack drones cannot reach targets deep inside China. And third, these weapons will not have the capability to destroy hardened or buried targets.
New report from @StaciePettyjohn and @PhilSheers:
cnas.org/publications/report…
Zach Shore retweeted
Stealth is getting more expensive every year. @hermeuscorp is betting speed can do the job cheaper.
They went supersonic in May, and next year they’re aiming for Mach 3.
Two years after our first episode, S3 went back to New Mexico and Atlanta to catch up with the team.
Don't take my word for it - here is Maj Gen Joe Solo Kunkel, Military Deputy Director at Defense Innovation Unit (DIU):
"When I talk to groups about Hermeus, they’re doing stuff that is unheard of in the aviation industry. On their first flight, they flew with the gear down—yeah, that makes sense. On the second flight, they put the gear up. That doesn’t make sense on the second flight. On the third flight, they went Mach 1.2. On the fourth flight, they went Mach 1.6. On the fifth flight, they dropped a weapon,” Kunkel said. “These things are all completely unheard of, but I think they’re the benefits of doing your own research and development and using private capital to fund that...and [we're] in contract negotiations right now for [additional DIU funding].”
Shoutout to @OwenWest91 , Maj Gen Joe Solo Kunkel ,and @DIU_x... our pace is not possible without your partnership.
tectonicdefense.com/exclusiv…
Pratt & Whitney has licensed another American company to build its F100 fighter jet engines for the first time in history.
That company is @hermeuscorp.
Domestic propulsion has hit a massive supply crunch, and engine availability was the single biggest bottleneck looming over scaling the Quarterhorse program.
By bringing production in-house, Hermeus becomes the first vertically integrated airframer manufacturing both airframes and engines, all while injecting critical engine capacity back into the defense industrial base.
Read more: hermeus.com/article/pw-f100-…
I was a senior in high school in 3rd period when the first aircraft hit the North Tower.
This terror attack (get bent if you want to argue it was anything else) is what led me to join the Marine Corps.
I would do it again in a heart beat. The United States of America is the greatest nation on earth.
America didn’t lose ground in high-speed flight because of a lack of ideas. We slowed down because flight tests became too expensive, too rare, and too cautious.
Meet Ramjet-X. Air-launched from the Quarterhorse program, it’s a low-cost, repeatable test vehicle built to fly and collect data at historically low costs and high cadence.
This is how America wins: test faster, fail cheaper, and put hardware in the air every single week.
Full-circle moment.
I spent years at @anduriltech helping build Lattice.
Now we’re making moves to deploy it with Quarterhorse and give even more capability and control to the American warfighter.
Autonomy fundamentally changes what aircraft can do. Pair it with high-Mach flight, and the possibilities are limitless.
We're going faster.
Read more here: hermeus.com/article/anduril-…
The sad truth is this is what happens when the research and academic community maintains a monopoly on defining the future technical roadmaps for war-fighting.
This may be the LEAST surprising uno reverse moment ever. Fml.
I guess we’ll do it again guys…
Navy Sounds Like It Now Wants The Air Combat Drone It Notoriously Passed Over A Decade Ago
A carrier drone with a heavy weapons capacity, long reach, and the ability to operate in heavily contested airspace is just what the junked X-47B was designed to offer.
(yes I have been waiting to write this for ten fucking years.)
twz.com/sea/navys-sounds-lik…
Fighter's target a 2 hr turn time to re-enter the fight.
We executed a 1:45min turn on our first try and we had potty breaks and forgot where we parked the fuel truck.
We're going faster, everywhere.
When @FarshadShadloo started driving @hermeuscorp’s brand refresh he specifically called out this feature. The man is a wizard. Looks like @X agrees!
One of the coolest uses of a text effect that I’ve seen in a long while. Bravo @hermeuscorp!
Flying is cool...dropping payloads is cooler. Who knows what we'll 'drop' next???
Another huge HyCAT milestone - a successful unmanned stores separation flight test with @hermeuscorp.
This was only the program's 5th flight since the Spring. Tests like this usually take years. We’re moving 4x as fast.
For all the stories about CA’s rail to nowhere (and countless other boondoggles) let’s throw some praise at @MTA for kicking ass!
Five years ahead of schedule. $195 million under budget.
Since October 2023, crews replaced 196 bridge structures and more than 12,600 feet of railroad along the 133-year-old Park Avenue Viaduct—all over 28 tightly coordinated weekends while maintaining full Metro-North service.
The work took place along a critical corridor carrying 98% of Metro-North trains—approximately 750 trains and 260,000 passengers every day.
With the major structural replacement now complete, we asked the project lead how the MTA delivered the work faster and for less without disrupting service.
Our planes will be steel. @elonmusk explains why better than I ever could.
Smarter not harder, folks.
Excited to be joining @itsmoislam and team tmrw from the NYSE!
Coverage starts at 11am - check it out!
GREAT guest lineup joining @itsmoislam and me tomorrow:
- @Zsshore, Hermeus
- @ekriessmann, Altimeter
- @danwrightSF, Armada
Friday, 11am ET. LIVE from the NYSE. Will push stream to X.
