DIU awards $159 million for Hermeus to demonstrate high-mach flight and payload release.

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    "title": "DIU awards $159 million for Hermeus to demonstrate high-mach flight and payload release.",
    "excerpt": "DIU awards $159 million for Hermeus to demonstrate high-mach flight and payload release.\n\nFlight of Hermeus' Mk 2.1 unmanned jet in May 2026. The aircraft achieved supersonic speeds. (Photo: Hermeus)\n\nHermeus on May 28 said it has received a $159 million contract modification from the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload carry and release to aid the development of future military capabilities.\n\nDIU in November 2023 awarded Hermeus a contract to mature its hypersonic aircraft technologies with a goal of flight testing its prototype Quarterhorse unmanned aircraft. The contract modification brings to $219 million the value of Hermeus' work with DIU.\n\nHermeus in May 2025 achieved flight with its first remotely piloted Quarterhorse prototype, the Mk 1, and followed that success in March with the first flight of its Mk 2.1. Those flights were at subsonic speeds.\n\nOn May 26, Hermeus achieved supersonic flight with the F-16-scale Mk 2.1, a first for an unmanned aircraft (Defense Daily, May 26). The Mk 2.1 is powered by an RTX F100 engine.\n\nThe DIU contract helps enable additional flight tests this year and next to expand the performance limits of its unmanned prototype aircraft. Hermeus is building the Mk 2.2 and plans to build the Mk 2.3.\n\nHermeus is working with the Air Force and Navy on the increased scope under the latest...",
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