Sequoia-who has been supported in Sequoia, the defense technology was founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, landed a contract with the US Army, Thornton told TechCrunch.
The factory will be 115,000 square feet on the Huntington Beach, California, where the headquarters of Macchers are located, the CEO Thorton said. While it’s like a valuable zip code for the factory of weapon, Southern California – The Spacex shadow – has become a hotspot for the American defense technological industry.
Mach also announced selected by Lowgestive application laboratory To develop the vertical precision cruise called “strategic strike.” This is a controller contribution awarded in the third quarter 2024.
Thornton tells her techcrunch and the US Army announced this contract is now because of the technology successfully meets the last month’s flight test.
As for the factory, it is another area that there is a defensive company company like Mach, as well as an algholaltry to innovation. MAC factory, called Factorge 1, will be one of the “decentralized” plans to build.
“Instead of a central factory, we will build a lot, many small factory are actually survivorful self-defense industry,” he explained. The factory will be designed to take raw materials through the final meeting.
In addition to other sites that are not yet determined in the US, they are also hoping to have an international location.
Huntington factory has completed a company’s main product, a weapon called Jetis and Jet developed with a Super Cight Verty and airs-in-law (UAV). Viper is known for the vertical tandoff, which requires Runway, and Mach says up to 300 less low-built-in built from the traditional UAV.
“This viper produces in the type of web manufacturer of Web manufacturers, and are excessive. You do not require a special tool for making, mean that the US must expand the production, we will not rely on this central location,” he said.
Glide is a bomb given from a vehicle like a balloon placed in the corner of space. This is supposed to glide more (Mach Claims will have an infinite variety to put the target anywhere on earth) and it is more difficult to shot.
Thornton says this first factory should be able to produce 1,000 blow and 3,000 glides per month.
Teenagers, $ 85m in funding
The machine industry is the beginning of the Defense Buzy Due to the investment of the main defense technology Sequoia and also because Thornton is a teenagers when establishing the company.
He released from the mit to work on the Mach at the age of 19 and short after Stephanie Zhan and Shaun Maguire as an investor. They bring the seeds of the $ 5.7 million seeds is announced In June 2023. Some months later, in October, 2023, Lewis Geoff Found of LED Capital Bedrock LED Mach $ 79 million series A.
While many founder industry defense industry is young (Palmer Luckey is in the mid 20 when he established annduril) impetus for this company when Thornton is still in high school.
“Back to the high school, I execute wood workshops and start making products startup. Then they do the highest, I went out of the mit, or before I have a team,” he said.
Mach starts to be one of the “IT” companies in the tech defense. For example, this is one handful of the company Formin former Recruiter Peterson Conway Can with. Now use tens of dozens.
