---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-089695"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DFNS"
cik: "0001787518"
company_name: "T3 Defense Inc."
filed_at: "2023-11-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T21:54:58.822139+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brilliant Acquisition extends business combination deadline to Dec 23, 2023; deposits $32,300 into trust

## Summary
- Issued $32,300 in promissory notes to sponsor and Nukkleus; deposit extends combination window to Dec 23, 2023.
- Proceeds deposited into trust account; extension gives more time to complete proposed merger with Nukkleus.
- Extension approved by shareholders on July 20, 2023; new deadline December 23, 2023.
- Notes are unsecured, non-interest bearing, mature upon closing; repaid only from non-trust funds if no deal.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-089695
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DFNS
- cik: 0001787518
- company_name: T3 Defense Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-11-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023089695/0001213900-23-089695-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023089695/ea188915-8k425_brilliant.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  T3 Defense Inc. incurred loan of aggregate principal amount of $32,300 with Nisun Investment Holding Limited and Nukkleus, Inc. at do not bear interest maturing mature upon closing of the Company's initial business combination.
  - Instrument: loan
  - Principal: aggregate principal amount of $32,300
  - Counterparty: Nisun Investment Holding Limited and Nukkleus, Inc.
  - Rate: do not bear interest
  - Maturity: mature upon closing of the Company's initial business combination
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On November 22, 2023, Brilliant Acquisition Corporation (the “Company” or “Brilliant”) issued unsecured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $32,300 (each, a “Note,” and together, the “Notes”), including a Note in the amount of $16,150 to Nisun Investment Holding Limited, the Company’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), and a Note in the amount of $16,150 to Nukkleus, Inc. (“Nukkleus”), the counterparty to the previously announced merger agreement dated as of February 22, 2022 (as amended and restated on June 23, 2023), pursuant to which a proposed business combination among Nukkleus, Brilliant and BRIL Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) would occur in which Merger Sub would merge into Nukkleus, and Nukkleus would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brilliant.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390023089695/0001213900-23-089695-index.htm

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