---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-051553"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DFNS"
cik: "0001787518"
company_name: "T3 Defense Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T17:12:34.922875+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brilliant Acquisition amends Nukkleus merger; reverses structure, extends deadline to Dec 2023

## Summary
- Amended Merger Agreement reverses original structure: SPAC to acquire Nukkleus; Nukkleus shareholders get 14M SPAC shares.
- Outside Closing Date extended to later of July 23, 2023 or up to December 23, 2023 with shareholder extension approval.
- Public SPAC shareholders eligible for additional Backstop Pool of up to 1,012,000 shares of Brilliant Common Stock.
- Brilliant will re-domicile from BVI to Delaware before merger; BRIL Merger Sub will merge into Nukkleus.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-051553
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DFNS
- cik: 0001787518
- company_name: T3 Defense Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023051553/0001213900-23-051553-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023051553/ea180889-8k425_brilliant.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  T3 Defense Inc. amended Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger with Nukkleus Inc. and BRIL Merger Sub, Inc. (effective 2023-06-23).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Nukkleus Inc. and BRIL Merger Sub, Inc.
  - Effective: 2023-06-23
  source text: On June 23, 2023, Brilliant, Nukkleus and BRIL Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Brilliant (“Merger Sub”), entered into an Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “A&R Merger Agreement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023051553/0001213900-23-051553-index.htm

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