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Will Somerindyke has a long history of selling weapons of war across the globe, including artillery shells to Ukraine and grenades to U.S.-backed rebels in Syria. By building relationships with dozens of military buyers, he quickly turned his company Regulus Global into one of America’s major international arms dealers.

Lately, he’s been quietly working on Union, a new venture-backed startup that will help Somerindyke make the jump from munitions middleman to manufacturer. He claims that Union will modernize ammunition factories with autonomous robotics and precision machining.

At its new Texas facility, set to open this month, Union hopes to produce more than 300,000 shells next year, according to a company pitch deck shared with seed investors in January. By 2030, Union has told its investors, it plans to produce 9 million shells a year, which it hopes will generate $3.5 billion in revenue.

Read more about how Union aims to reshape defense tech and manufacturing in the U.S. in David Jeans’ excellent story for Forbes here, and keep scrolling below for more great journalism from our newsroom.

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