ADDIT3D: Impresión 3D en Formato Gigante

ADDIT3D, única feria profesional de España sobre Manufactura Aditiva, celebra su 4ª edición y ofrece un interesante espacio de información, de análisis de tecnologías y mercados, de estudio de oportunidades, de internacionalización y promoción.

La celebración simultánea de ADDIT3D con otros cinco eventos industriales (FITMAQ, INDUSTRY TOOLS, MAINTENANCE, PUMPS & VALVES y SUBCONTRATACION) refuerza su perfil como espacio para los negocios y la transferencia de conocimiento.

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Additive Manufacturing to build missiles: Relativity Space

According to Jordan Noone, co-founder and CTO of Relativity Space, powder-bed printing technologies such as DMLS are becoming common in the aerospace industry. But he noted that DMLS printers and technology are too small and limited in scale to manufacture an entire missile.

Tim Ellis (ex Blue Origin) and Jordan Noone (ex SpaceX) joined in 2015 and decided to start a competing firm. The founders distinguished their company from Blue Origin and SpaceX by setting a novel and ambitious goal: be the first to 3D-print an entire missile.

For testing purposes, Relativity leases space at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where it has completed more than 100 test firings of its Aeon 1 engine. In addition, the company will build and operate a launch complex at Cape Canaveral.

Some organizations have addressed the challenge of large-scale 3D printing and worked on solutions, but they never developed a technology to the point that it could produce components of the quality and complexity required for missiles. “Our goal was to develop a printer that could streamline complicated assemblies by printing them in one piece,” says Noone, who leads the development team. “We architectured a printer that was ideal for our rocket launch vehicle, which is a long, skinny tube with thin walls and unique material properties and inspection criteria.”

Relativity’s patented printing system features an industrial robot arm with an end effector that houses the arc- and laser-deposition technology. An array of sensors surrounds the deposition system and constantly collects data, providing the real-time control necessary to ensure that printing is done with the required precision.

The combination also allows to control thermal input sufficiently to produce the required part properties and geometries. Though Relativity currently focuses mainly on printing with aluminum alloys, the system can print any weldable material, as well as certain nonweldable materials that respond well to the process. Relativity has started exploring the use of materials such as stainless steel and nickel alloys.

Vitoria-Gasteiz: Presentación Impresoras 3D HP Multi Jet Fusion 500/300

Integral 3D Printing le invita a la presentación de la NUEVA gama de Impresoras 3D HP Multi Jet Fusion 500/300, que tendrá lugar el próximo 6 de marzo en Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Durante la jornada, podrá conocer la tecnología de HP Multi Jet Fusion, y verla aplicada mediante algunos casos de éxito y demostraciones prácticas en directo. 

Asimismo, descubrirá cómo los procesos de simulación pueden ayudarle a optimizar sus diseños e impresiones, gracias a las soluciones ANSYS.

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SEMINARIO DE SIMULACION

Seminario de Simulación Reducción de tiempo y costo en el diseño y fabricación de productos a través de simulación Desarrolle productos con precisión y confiabilidad. Descubra en este seminario como la adopción de herramientas de simulación impacta en la reducción de costo y mejora de eficiencia. ESSS, representante ANSYS en España, presentará las herramientas para el uso de la simulación y demostrar el desarrollo de un proyecto completo desde el diseño a la simulación y análisis de los resultados. Inscríbase ahora en este evento gratuito y descubra: - El impacto de la simulación digital en el desarrollo de productos - Uso de Simulación en empresas pequeñas y medianas con costos accesibles - Simulación computacional instantánea: aplicaciones y comparación con la simulación tradicional - Demostración de Simulación Computacional

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US Defense Budget: ¿Where goes the money endly go?

¿Where does the money of the US taxpayer really go?

Watching the scene from outside US, it results difficult to understand how some countries with much less defense budgets are achieving better results.

Let us think on Avangard Hypersonic Glide Vehicle made by Russia: As reported,  it has been launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains, and successfully hit a practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6000 kilometres (3700 miles) away, reaching speeds close to Mach 25, what means roughly 10 Km/s or 6 miles/s.

¿Truth or lie? If the above is truth, this would mean that no US anti-missile could knock it down. In another words: United States could lay fastly out of combat in case a military conflict against Russia.

So, again: ¿Where has the money of the US taxpayer really gone?

Sergei Ivanov, a former Russian defence minister, has said in televised comments that the Avangard constantly changes its course and altitude while it flies through the atmosphere, chaotically zigzagging on its path to its target, making it impossible to predict the weapon’s location.

¿Truth or lie? If truth, ¿United States has something similar? For the moment, it seems simply that the answer is "no".

So, again: ¿Where has the money of the US taxpayer really gone?

Ivanov has stated also that the Avangard Hypersonic Glide Vehicle has cost hundreds of times less than what the US has spent on its missile defence system.

¿Truth or lie? Well, bearing in mind the russian defence budget, it can not be a lie at all.

And now the the cherry on the cake: Ivanov has revealed that Russia began to develop the Avangard after 2002 when the US withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and began developing defences against ballistic missiles.

¿Truth or lie? Well, this is not the right question. The right question is -or should be- the following :  If a dwarfy budget as the russian defence budget has allowed Russia to get something like the Avangard in just 16 years, ¿Where has the money of the US taxpayer really gone during these 16 years?

¿U.S. to sell Patriot missile systems to Turkey?

The Ankara office director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, told Arab News he believes the decision from the U.S. State Department to dangle the offer of the Patriot system is aimed to make Turkey drop the purchase of the S-400: If Ankara forges ahead with purchasing the Russian alternative, the Patriot offer would allow the U.S. to dismiss Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program.

The Patriot and S-400 are competing systems, and Washington has firmly opposed to Turkey’s planned acquisition of Russian-made systems that are designed to target American-made military weapons. In words of Nicholas Danforth, a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Project, “The real breakthrough would only be if Turkey abandoned its plans to buy the S-400s. For the Patriot sale to move forward, Turkish officials must have to convince Washington they are not going to buy the S-400s.”

Purchase of Patriot missiles will not affect S-400 deal

Turkey’s possible purchase of US-made Patriot missile systems will not impact its deal to buy Russian S-400 systems, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told a news conference on Monday 24th December: “The deal on S-400 is closed. The first systems will be supplied in October 2019. The offer on Patriot will change nothing because we don’t consider them as alternatives to one another. We can have both systems,” he was quoted as saying by Russian news agency TASS. 

US State Department Backs Patriot Missile Sale

On December 18, the U.S. State Department announced its proposal to Congress for a $3.5 billion Patriot system sale to Turkey.

The DSCA press release reports that Turkey plans to procure 80 Patriot MIM-104E GEM (Guidance Enhanced Missiles) and 60 PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) missiles.

The package also includes four AN/MPQ-65 Radar Sets, as well as other launching stations and control systems. According to an unnamed State Department spokesperson, the sale will allow “the Turkish military to guard against hostile aggression and shield NATO allies.”

This announcement follows several years of increasing tensions between the United States and Turkey under President Tayyip Erdogan.

Raytheon wins $693 million production contract

Previously announced by the U.S. Department of Defense, the contract calls for Raytheon to build and deliver an undisclosed quantity of Patriot fire units and GEM-T interceptor missiles.

In words of Tom Laliberty, vice president of Integrated Air and Missile Defense at Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business, "Sweden's Patriot procurement will provide joint training opportunities for the Swedish and U.S. armed forces, and enhance military interoperability. Patriot is continually modernized, providing Sweden the world's most advanced and capable air and missile defense system."

Raytheon’s Patriot Solutions is a missile defense system consisting of radars, command-and-control technology and multiple types of interceptors, all working together to detect, identify and defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, advanced aircraft and other threats.

Lockheed secures $3.3b deal to deliver PAC-3 to Saudi Arabia

PAC-3 missiles are high-velocity interceptors against incoming threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircrafts.

Thirteen nations –Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden, Romania, Taiwan, UAE and United States– have chosen PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) to provide missile defense capabilities.

The upgraded PAC-3 MSE expands the lethal battlespace with a dual-pulse solid rocket motor, providing increased performance in altitude and range. PAC-3 MSE is a high-velocity interceptor against incoming threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircrafts.

The missile uses Hit-to-Kill technology, which engages threats through kinetic energy via body-to-body contact. In words of Jay Pitman, vice president of PAC-3 programs at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, "PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE give our customers unmatched, combat-proven hit-to-kill technology to address growing and evolving threats. PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE are proven, trusted and reliable interceptors that employ hit-to-kill accuracy, lethality and enhanced safety to address dangers around the world."

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