The Race America Cannot Afford to Lose

The GE partnership was a signal. The context is a national security crisis. This is the story of why the Pentagon is turning to the private sector, and why it matters for investors.

Dear Reader,

In our last briefing, we showed you how General Electric quietly hired a small Florida company, Starfighters Space (NYSE American: FJET), for a critical Pentagon-funded program.

Now, we'll show you why.

The United States is falling behind in a new, high-stakes arms race.

While our military was stretched thin across the Middle East, China and Russia were developing a new class of weapon: the hypersonic missile.

These weapons travel at over five times the speed of sound. They can change direction mid-flight. They are virtually unstoppable with our current defense systems.

This is not a future threat. It is a present danger.

The global hypersonic weapons market is valued at over $9 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $15 billion by 2031. The U.S. Congress has appropriated billions for hypersonic development programs. The Air Force Research Laboratory is actively tapping commercial platforms to accelerate testing.

The challenge isn't money. It's speed.

The old way of developing weapons (relying on slow, government-owned test facilities with booking windows that stretch months into the future) is failing us.

This is where Starfighters comes in.

Their unique fleet of F-104 jets provides a commercial, high-speed testbed available on demand. They offer the "picks and shovels" for the entire hypersonic industry. Every company racing to build these new weapons needs to test them. Starfighters provides the platform to do it: at Mach 2, from Kennedy Space Center, on a repeatable schedule.

This is the first revenue stream. It's real, it's funded by the DoD, and it's growing.

>> Learn more about Starfighters' defense testing capabilities here.

But the story doesn't end with hypersonic testing.

That's just one half of their business.

The other half is aimed at an even bigger market: space launch.

The global space launch services market was valued at over $21 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $70 billion by 2035. The small satellite market alone is growing at over 16% per year.

Starfighters is developing its STARLAUNCH platform: a system designed to carry a rocket to 45,000 feet on the wing of a supersonic jet and launch it to orbit from there.

This is not a new concept. But Starfighters is executing it with a discipline that is rare for a company of this size.

In January, they announced the successful completion of 10 wind tunnel test runs for STARLAUNCH 1, validating that their launch vehicle could separate cleanly from the jet at both subsonic and supersonic speeds.

The results were striking. Experimental data showed strong agreement between their computational models and the physical tests, a critical risk-reduction milestone that proves their engineering approach is sound.

"The close alignment between our simulations and the wind tunnel results gives us confidence in the underlying design," said CEO Rick Svetkoff.

This is what disciplined execution looks like.

Step by step. Test by test. Milestone by milestone.

They are building a dual-revenue stream business on a foundation of unique, hard-to-replicate assets: the only commercial Mach 2+ fleet in the world.

Consider what that means for investors.

Most small-cap space companies are pure speculation — burning cash on technology that may never work. Starfighters is different. They already have a paying customer. They already have a proven platform. And they are executing a methodical development plan that reduces risk at every stage.

>> Review the full Starfighters Space investor presentation here.

In our final briefing, we'll show you the most important development of all. The GE partnership goes far deeper than a single contract. And the latest announcement changes the entire calculus on this company.

To your financial freedom,

Kiyosaki Research

P.S. Wind tunnel tests are a key step. But the ultimate validation comes when your partner — one of the biggest aerospace companies in the world — puts their own engineers in the room to help you build. That's exactly what's happening now. More in our next briefing.

P.P.S. China isn't waiting. Russia isn't waiting. The U.S. military needs to test its new hypersonic weapons now, and the old government systems are too slow. Starfighters Space (NYSE: FJET) provides the solution. It's a simple, powerful business model at the center of a multi-billion-dollar defense boom. This is a story you need to understand today.

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