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<\/a><\/div>\nFor years, Will Somerindyke sold weapons of war\u00a0<\/strong>around the world: artillery shells to Ukraine, grenades to U.S.-backed rebels in Syria. With relationships with dozens of top military buyers, he quickly turned his company Regulus Global into one of America\u2019s major international arms dealers.<\/p>\n Now, as Silicon Valley investors swarm to back multi-billion dollar defense startups with increasing fervor, Somerindyke is looking to make the jump from munitions middleman to manufacturer. He\u2019s been quietly working on Union, a new venture-backed startup he claims will modernize ammunition factories with autonomous robotics and precision machining.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been through a lot in 18 years in this space,\u201d Somerindyke told\u00a0Forbes<\/em>. \u201cIf Union does its job correctly, we will be building millions of square feet of facilities with the ability to make a wide range of defense products.\u201d<\/p>\n Union, which Somerindyke leads as CEO, appears to have made a solid start. In April it secured a massive $50 million seed funding round led by Bravo Victor Venture Capital, or BVVC. Other investors include Silent Ventures, IronGate, and RKKVC, a Poland-based single-family office. It plans to open its first artillery shell factory in Texas next month. And it recently secured a contract to sell those shells, which, if fulfilled, could bring in up to $225 million, according to Somerindyke.<\/p>\n But instead of approaching the problem with old-school manufacturing, Somerindyke and Musselman, who met more than a decade ago through a program for veterans, saw an opportunity to modernize weapons manufacturing, are using Silicon Valley software talent to implement autonomous systems. Since incorporating in October, Union has hired a suite of engineers from Tesla, SpaceX and Anduril.<\/p>\n Musselman has touted recent momentum to \u201creindustrialize\u201d America and bring manufacturing back to the U.S. as necessary to combatting China\u2019s manufacturing superiority. Other companies have joined the effort, including Hadrian, which does autonomous manufacturing, and Re:Build, a Massachusetts-based company that has been acquiring mom-and-pop factories and modernizing them; both could compete with Union\u2019s entry into the market. Mussleman has also invested in other defense companies; after starting BVVC in 2023, he has written checks into drone company Firestorm and autonomous submarine startup Vatn Systems.<\/p>\n At the 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 nine million shells a year, which it hopes will generate $3.5 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n Those are lofty figures. But Musselman sees the ongoing turbulence in the world \u2014 conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East \u2014 as proof of Union\u2019s thesis. \u201cWe are running at a deficit of stockpiles or anything that goes boom around the world,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that’s going to be a leverage point for our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u09a8\u09bf\u0989\u099c \u099f\u09be\u0999\u09cd\u0997\u09be\u0987\u09b2\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09b0\u09cd\u09ac\u09b6\u09c7\u09b7 \u0996\u09ac\u09b0 \u09aa\u09c7\u09a4\u09c7 \u0997\u09c1\u0997\u09b2 \u09a8\u09bf\u0989\u099c (Google News) \u09ab\u09bf\u09a1\u099f\u09bf \u0985\u09a8\u09c1\u09b8\u09b0\u09a3 \u0995\u09b0\u09c1\u09a8<\/a> For years, Will Somerindyke sold weapons of war\u00a0around the world: artillery shells to Ukraine, grenades to U.S.-backed rebels in Syria. With relationships with dozens of top military buyers, he quickly turned his company Regulus Global into one of America\u2019s major international arms dealers. 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