---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-089259"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DFNS"
cik: "0001787518"
company_name: "T3 Defense Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:07:47.299936+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nukkleus enters $250M equity line with Esousa Group to fund aerospace & defense acquisitions

## Summary
- ELOC: up to $250M in common stock over 36 months; pricing at 97.5% of VWAP discount.
- Commitment shares worth $1.25M issued upfront; max draw limited to 20% of daily volume.
- Proceeds to fund M&A pipeline and working capital; draws require SEC-registered resale statement.
- CEO Menny Shalom: facility provides flexible resources to pursue accretive growth opportunities.
- Exchange cap of 19.99% of outstanding shares unless shareholder approval is obtained.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-089259
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DFNS
- cik: 0001787518
- company_name: T3 Defense Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390025089259/0001213900-25-089259-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390025089259/ea0257982-8k_nukkleus.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-089259.txt

## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  T3 Defense Inc. issued up to the lesser of (i) $250,000,000 of Common Shares and (ii) the Exchange Cap of common stock to Esousa Group Holdings, LLC for purchase price equal to 97.5% of the lower of daily VWAP or closing sale price.
  - Security: common stock
  - Shares: up to the lesser of (i) $250,000,000 of Common Shares and (ii) the Exchange Cap
  - Purchaser: Esousa Group Holdings, LLC
  - Consideration: purchase price equal to 97.5% of the lower of daily VWAP or closing sale price
  source text: forth in the ELOC Purchase Agreement. The Common Shares purchased pursuant ELOC Purchase Agreement will be purchased from time to time at a price equal to a discounted price of 97.5% of the lower of: (i) the lowest daily VWAP of any trading day during the three trading days preceding the date on which the Company submits a draw down notice and (ii) the
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1787518/000121390025089259/0001213900-25-089259-index.htm

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