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T3 Defense Inc.
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MKT CAP $6.8MP/E —DIV YIELD —FCF YIELD -197.29%REV TTM —NET INCOME −$136MNET CASH $2.5M52W 3.90 – 1,000.00SEC XBRL · TTM TO Invalid Date
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- Risks Related to Our Business The audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
- The Company recorded negative working capital of approximately $30 million (which includes $24.5 million of stock purchase warrant liabilities which will not require any cash to extinguish) and stockholders’ deficit of $15.6 million as of December 31, 2025; a net operating loss of $32.6 million and net cash used in operations of $6.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2025.
- Absent any other action, the Company will require additional liquidity to continue its operations for the next 12 months.
- After evaluating these conditions, management concluded that its plans, when considered in aggregate, alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
- Those plans include: (i) cancellation of a previously contemplated $16 million intercompany note obligation arising from the acquisition of Star 26, which has been mutually agreed to be of no force or effect; (ii) the Company's existing unrestricted cash balance of approximately $7.0 million, sufficient to fund projected operating expenses of its portfolio companies through the look-forward period; (iii) an active Equity Line of Credit ("ELOC") with Esousa Holdings, LLC — legally binding, SEC-registered, and shareholder-approved — providing estimated monthly drawdown capacity of approximately $6.6 million, which exceeds the Company's projected annual operating cash needs; (iv) the Company's majority-owned subsidiaries, including Rimon Ltd. and Nimbus Robotics, which are cash-positive and require no capital support from the Company; (v) management's ongoing efforts to assist subsidiaries in securing or expanding bank credit facilities; (vi) the option to satisfy certain obligations through issuance of equity in lieu of cash; and (vii) the Company's demonstrated track record of capital markets execution, including the completion of PIPE transactions raising approximately $20 million in the prior twelve months.
- Management has determined that its plans are probable of being effectively implemented and probable of mitigating the conditions described above, enabling continuation of the Company’s operations for the foreseeable future.
- Our unprecedented transformation from financial technology to aerospace and defense lacks any operational track record and may completely fail.
- We have recently completed our business model transformation.
- This transformation required or requires us to: divest our existing operations; acquire and integrate multiple defense companies; establish new regulatory compliance systems for ITAR, DFARS, and other regulations; obtain facility security clearances that typically take 12-18 months; recruit cleared personnel in a competitive market; and develop prime contractor relationships from scratch, all within a short timeframe.
- We have never managed a defense program, never held a government contract, never obtained security clearances, and have no established relationships with prime defense contractors.
- The defense industry operates under fundamentally different business models, regulations, and customer requirements than financial services.
- There is no assurance that we will successfully execute this transformation or generate any returns from the substantial capital being deployed.
- Our complete lack of defense industry track record means investors are funding an entirely unproven strategy that may result in total loss of invested capital.
- We are attempting to integrate multiple defense companies simultaneously without any aerospace and defense experience.
- We have recently acquired Star 26, Tiltan and Nimbus, ITS, and are constantly pursuing other targets, all within a compressed timeframe and without any defense industry acquisition or integration experience.
- Each acquisition involves different countries (U.S., Israel, Europe), currencies, regulatory regimes, and business models.
- Managing simultaneous integrations of this magnitude typically requires extensive expertise, dedicated integration teams, and proven playbooks—none of which we possess.
- Historical data shows that 70-90% of acquisitions fail to achieve projected synergies, and our complete lack of industry experience significantly increases this failure risk.
- We may discover post-closing that acquired technologies are obsolete, customer relationships are not transferable, key employees depart, or compliance violations trigger penalties.
- The complexity of simultaneous multi-jurisdictional defense acquisitions without relevant experience creates extreme execution risk.
- Our Chief Executive Officer’s commitments to other companies may limit his ability to devote full-time attention to our business and could result in competition or conflicts of interest, which could adversely affect our operations and financial performance.
- Menachem Shalom, our Chief Executive Officer, also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Star 26, Motomova Inc., and Hold Me Ltd.
- Shalom to devote significant time and resources to the management and strategic direction of these other companies, which may reduce the time and attention he can dedicate to T3.
- This divided focus could impair our ability to execute our business strategy, particularly as we transition to a defense-focused company following the acquisition of Star 26.
- Shalom’s time may delay critical decision-making, hinder our ability to respond to market opportunities, or weaken our operational oversight, all of which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
- Furthermore, the businesses of Star 26, Motomova Inc., and Hold Me Ltd. may operate in sectors or pursue opportunities that compete with our current or future operations.
- While Star 26 is now our wholly-owned subsidiary, Motomova Inc. and Hold Me Ltd. are separate entities with potentially divergent interests.
- Shalom’s involvement in these companies could lead to conflicts of interest, including the allocation of business opportunities, resources, or strategic priorities that may favor these other entities over T3.
- Any such competition or conflicts could harm our competitive position, limit our growth prospects, and negatively impact the value of our securities.
- In our recent acquisitions, including our acquisitions of Star 26, Tiltan and Nimbus, our business has become increasingly complex.
- Our continued growth could strain our existing resources, and we could experience ongoing operating difficulties in managing our business as it expands, including difficulties in hiring, training, and managing an employee base.
- Failure to scale could harm our future success, including our ability to retain and recruit personnel and to effectively focus on and pursue our corporate objectives.
- If we do not adapt to meet these evolving challenges, or if our management team does not effectively scale with our growth, we may experience erosion to our reputation and the integration of our products and services.
- Any of the foregoing operational failures could lead to noncompliance with laws, loss of revenues, licenses or other government authorizations, or loss of relationships that could substantially impair or even suspend company operations.
- We have divested our financial technology business and are now building a defense business, creating operational complexity and execution risk.
- We are now focused on acquiring and integrating defense companies.
- This dual-track strategy has required and may continue to require management attention and resources across divergent activities, including: negotiating divestiture terms while managing acquisition integrations; maintaining legacy compliance obligations while implementing new defense regulations; supporting existing financial services customers during transition while pursuing defense customers; and managing employee uncertainty across both divesting and acquiring operations.
- The complexity of completing divestitures and acquisitions within a short timeframe significantly increases execution risk and the potential for value destruction in both transactions.
- We are subject to heightened operational and cybersecurity risks.
- Many of our employees work from their homes or other non-company dwellings.
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- Risks Related to Nukkleus’s Business Failure to complete the acquisition of Star may result in paying a termination fee to Star and could harm our common stock price and future business and operations.
- If the acquisition of Star is not completed, we are subject to the following risks: ● if the Star Agreement is terminated under specified circumstances, we could be required to pay Star a termination fee of $1.0 million; ● the price of our common stock may decline and could fluctuate significantly; and ● costs related to the proposed acquisition, such as legal and accounting fees, a majority of which must be paid even if the agreement is not completed.
- If the Star Agreement is terminated and the board of directors of the Company determines to seek another business combination, there can be no assurance that we will be able to find another third party to transact a business combination with, yielding comparable or greater benefits.
- If the conditions to the Star Agreement are not satisfied or waived, the acquisition may not occur.
- Even if the Star acquisition is approved by the stockholders of the Company, specified conditions must be satisfied or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waived to complete the acquisition.
- These conditions are set forth in the Star Agreement.
- We cannot assure you that all of the conditions to the consummation of the acquisition will be satisfied or waived.
- If the conditions are not satisfied or waived, the acquisition may not occur or the closing may be delayed.
- We have a limited operating history in an evolving and highly volatile industry, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and may increase the risk that we will not be successful.
- Nukkleus, the wholly owned operating subsidiary, was formed in 2013 and since then our business model has continued to evolve.
- In 2021, we acquired a controlling interest in Match.
- In 2019, our Digital RFQ indirect subsidiary, and wholly owned subsidiary of Match, began to operate a payment processing business partly using blockchain technology.
- The comparability of our results in prior quarterly or annual periods should not be viewed as an indication of future performance.
- The “blockchain technology” used by Digital RFQ in its payment processing business and referred to throughout this annual report is intended to refer to stablecoins operated on the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron networks, or such other blockchain networks as Digital RFQ may determine to be reliable and well established in the financial services industry, at an advanced stage and fully tested and collaterialized based on certain criteria summarized below.
- The blockchain networks used by Digital RFQ in its payment processing business are maintained and operated by third parties.
- Because Digital RFQ makes use of blockchain technology only to process payments and does not hold digital assets, the criteria for the adoption and use of any blockchain network may differ from those of investors in stablecoins.
- Digital RFQ evaluates each blockchain and/or stablecoin on a daily and transaction-by-transaction basis, to minimize any risk associated with the blockchain or stablecoin and to ensure that Digital RFQ can reliably complete the transaction in and out of the stablecoin quickly to minimize such risk.
- Digital RFQ determines that a blockchain or stablecoin is suitable for use in its payment processing services by assessing the following criteria: ● First, how widely supported is the blockchain stablecoin combination by Digital RFQ’s trading partners, including the banks and financial institutions Digital RFQ uses to support its business.
- Having sufficient trading partners that support the blockchain or stablecoin means there may be multiple choices of blockchain to use for any given trade. ● Second, whether there is sufficient liquidity in those partners’ holdings of the stablecoin to ensure Digital RFQ is able to trade in or out without exposure to volatility and price risk.
- To determine whether any blockchain technology meets Digital RFQ’s requirements and is a suitable candidate for use in Digital RFQ’s payment processing business, we assess the following criteria.
- We monitor these criteria for each blockchain or stablecoin we use regularly on an ongoing basis: ● Market share .
- Digital RFQ assesses a blockchain or stablecoin’s share of the stablecoin market as a whole and market capitalization from publicly available information.
- Some stablecoins have been in existence longer than others and may have a larger market share and market capitalization.
- These factors also have an influence on the market perception of such stablecoins.
- For example, USDT ‘Tether’ is the most prominent stablecoin measured by market capitalization but has faced auditing issues, while newer products such as GBPT have had professional Big Four auditors from inception but do not have material market share to date and thus would not be perceived or assessed as at an advanced stage or well established. ● Auditing and Collateralization .
- Auditing is paramount to the security and stability of stablecoins and for this reason Digital RFQ will only work with firms that adhere to full collateralization that is independently verified by an outside auditor.
- Digital RFQ believes that collateralization is key in maturing stablecoins.
- For example, the UST Terra Luna ‘collapse’ showed that algorithmically-backed stability creates vulnerability to counterparty mismanagement and influence, driven by the difficulty and lack of auditing and intrinsic connection to the Terra network itself.
- In contrast, collateralized stablecoins such as USDT and USDC are fully backed by reserve fiat currency holdings and can be redeemed by holders for such fiat currency.
- Digital RFQ also views traditional markets, while much more established, as not completely free of risk since they rely substantially on fractional reserve banking to maintain the market. ● Counterparty Risk .
- Digital RFQ assesses counterparty risk in its stablecoin and blockchain selection in the issuer of the stablecoin and its governance and in the banks and financial institutions it uses to source liquidity.
- Digital RFQ assesses the degree of governance decentralization that may give direct control over funds (as backing, for example) or attack vectors to the governance architecture that could expose control over funds, and determines the degree of counterparty risk from the level of centralization.
- To assess the degree of centralization, Digital RFQ examines the number of parties controlling the blockchain protocol, the number of holders and the level of founder backing (demonstrated by founders holding a significant amount of the stablecoin).
- Digital RFQ is able to remain operationally stable throughout any given payment processing transaction due primarily to a robust counterparty infrastructure and minimal exposure to these ‘transit’ legs of the transaction (for more information on the third parties involved in Digital RFQ’s payment processing business, please refer to the section titled “ We rely on connectivity to blockchain networks for our Platforms ”. ● Smart Contract Risk .
- Smart contract risk relates to the technical security of a blockchain or stablecoin based on its underlying code.
- If one of the supported stablecoins or other digital currencies is compromised, collateral will be affected, thus threatening the solvency of the blockchain protocol.
- Projects must have undergone audits to be considered.
- We assess maturity based on the number of days and the number of transactions of the smart contract as a representation of use, community and development.
- These proxies show how strong the code is.
- However, because Digital RFQ makes use of blockchain technology only to process payments, and does not hold digital assets, we are able to constantly monitor the status of any blockchain network or stablecoin before, during and after a payment is processed, and determine which of the available blockchain networks is suitable for a particular transaction.
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