Supersonic Fighter Jet Startup Becomes Unicorn With New Funding

Hypersonic plane startup Hermeus Corp. raised $350 million in a funding round to scale up its efforts to build the fastest uncrewed aircraft ever for the US Department of Defense.

The Atlanta-based company will use the new capital to build two more supersonic jets and ramp up its manufacturing capacity. Hermeus is in the process of building an unmanned plane that will eventually travel three times faster than the speed of sound for military purposes.

“It’s got fighter jet payload capacity, but it’s unmanned, and it’s more affordable,” Zach Shore, president of Hermeus, said in an interview.

Startup Hermeus is raising millions to build hypersonic planes. Hermeus

Source: Hermeus

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