Turning Factories into Weapons of Asymmetric Warfare w/ Mach Industries CSO Nathan Diller

The Aerospace Executive Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 57m

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…