{"id":17546,"date":"2026-04-07T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=9eef120b0efa18c5aab0375de941f83d"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:08:59","slug":"hermeus-raises-350m-at-a-1b-valuation-to-build-autonomous-hypersonic-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17546","title":{"rendered":"Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/Hermeus.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is to accept that hardware will fail,\u00a0and plan for it. Hermeus, a Los Angeles-based defence aviation startup developing autonomous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/hermeus-350m-hypersonic-fighter-unicorn?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/hermeus-350m-hypersonic-fighter-unicorn\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}