---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-014101"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DFNS"
cik: "0001787518"
company_name: "T3 Defense Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T00:53:24.716917+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brilliant Acquisition extends business combination deadline to March 23, 2023; Nukkleus deposits $32,500

## Summary
- Issued $32,500 promissory note to Nukkleus to extend completion window to March 23, 2023.
- Nukkleus deposited $32,500 ($0.08 per public share) into trust account for the extension.
- Shareholders approved extension on Jan 19, 2023; further extension to April 23, 2023 possible with additional $32,500 deposit.
- The extension is to allow time to consummate the previously announced business combination with Nukkleus.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-014101
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DFNS
- cik: 0001787518
- company_name: T3 Defense Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023014101/0001213900-23-014101-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023014101/ea174158-8k425_brilliant.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-014101.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  T3 Defense Inc. incurred loan of $32,500 with Nukkleus, Inc. at does not bear interest maturing upon closing of the Company’s initial business combination.
  - Instrument: loan
  - Principal: $32,500
  - Counterparty: Nukkleus, Inc.
  - Rate: does not bear interest
  - Maturity: upon closing of the Company’s initial business combination
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On February 23, 2023, Brilliant Acquisition Corporation (the “Company” or “Brilliant”) issued an unsecured promissory note in the aggregate principal amount of $32,500 (the “Note”) to Nukkleus, Inc. (“Nukkleus”), the counterparty to the previously announced merger agreement dated as of February 22, 2022 (as amended to date), pursuant to which a proposed business combination among Nukkleus, Brilliant and Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) would occur in which Merger Sub would merge into Brilliant, and Brilliant would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nukkleus. The Note does not bear interest and matures upon closing of the Company’s initial business combination.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023014101/0001213900-23-014101-index.htm

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