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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 29, 2017, 08:35:03 am
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3-D printing in the field gives Soldiers more flexibility
By Lauren Poindexter July 26, 2017
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Engineers here are developing 3-D expeditionary kits that could be used when needed to make specialty tools, spare parts, and other components to fill the time gaps between when parts break and when the replacement arrives from the original equipment manufacturers.
Rapid Fabrication, also known as R-FAB, with additive manufacturing on the battlefield is a fieldable system for rapid construction of critical repair parts, specialty tools, spares, and custom packaging for brigade support battalions, sustainment supply activities, and other special mission activities.
https://www.army.mil/article/191316/3_d_printing_in_the_field_gives_soldiers_more_flexibility