Jared FriedmanLead source
It's almost hard to believe, but the US has only a single factory left that makes HMX and RDX, the explosives in nearly every modern missile and bomb - an aging wwii plant in Tennessee that's massively backordered. A few years ago, a startup called Solugen was making chemicals for the petroleum industry, when by happenstance they heard about this problem. It turns out that the same infrastructure they'd built for other chemicals was a perfect fit to make energetics. So, that's what they're doing now. They can already make 1/10 of what the old US army plant makes, and in the future will make much more. This is the SpaceX/Anduril moment for the US military explosives market.Read original on X