
← The Aerospace Executive Podcast17 sep · 57 min
Turning Factories into Weapons of Asymmetric Warfare w/ Mach Industries CSO Nathan Diller
Defense is changing. Fast.
For decades, weapons development was measured in years, sometimes decades.
That model is being challenged.
A new generation of defense-tech companies, backed by serious venture capital, is approaching the problem differently:
Move fast. Build fast. Iterate fast.
Mach Industries recently raised $300 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.8 billion.
But this is the number that caught my attention: 71 days.
That’s how long it took Mach to take its Venom 3D-printed jet-powered unmanned aircraft from sketch to flight.
Think about that.
Just 71 days from an idea on paper to something flying through the air.
This represents a much bigger shift taking place in defense:
Asymmetric warfare.