Armed Forces received 3D printers for $ 1 million: print spare parts just at the front (video)

The Ukrainian military will be able to repair and return to the fighting of combat equipment without waiting for the delivery of scarce spare parts. The Australian company Spee3D has delivered the first seven modules of special 3D printers on metal, on which the Armed Forces will be able to print the necessary spare parts directly on the front line. About it reports The Defense Post. Melbourne has put 3D metal printers in Ukraine as part of the US Department of Defense security initiative.

Each printer worth about $ 1 million will be focused on creating critically important details of Ukrainian military equipment directly on the front, which will greatly simplify the task of recovery of transport and armored vehicles and will allow you not to wait for the necessary spare parts. In addition, the importance of such printers is that with their help you can print the necessary accessories that are no longer available for outdated samples of the Soviet era.

They can not always be quickly reached in the right amount, and the 3D printer will solve this problem. Of course, such a device cannot print by heating complex parts. But very often the military cannot send equipment to battle due to lack of various little things: loops, brackets, connectors, pumps and levers and more. Similar 3D prints can make these details just half an hour directly in the war zone.

According to Forbes, more than a dozen Ukrainian military has been trained in Poland to work with Spee3D. This printer, like similar ones, is printed by metal spare parts by additive technology, that is, the method of applying layers on top of each other. Instead of melting metal, this method uses kinetic energy to connect metal particles together in a solid state to create a final part. Warpspee3D is also extremely fast and energy efficient.

It can make large parts up to 1 meter in diameter or weighing up to 40 kg of several metals. For example, this artillery crack of aluminum bronze weighing four and a half pound below was made in 60 minutes. "We are focused on giving Ukrainian soldiers resources to strengthen the possibilities of maintenance and repair, when and where it is most important," said Vice president Spee3D from Defense Chris Harris.