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• The US military is pivoting from a world where it fields a few exquisite craft to one where it can manufacture swarms of vehicles. Additive manufacturing at scale, along with...
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The US military is pivoting from a world where it fields a few exquisite craft to one where it can manufacture swarms of vehicles. Additive manufacturing at scale, along with a new class of digital forges, is emerging to make this possible. Beehive has been eyeing this opportunity for a while. Now the firm has gotten a $29.7 million SOSSEC consortium contract to make lots of 200- and 125-lpf pound engines, the Frenzy 8 and Frenzy 6. A manufacturing surge is underway, turning billions into 3D printed devices.
The company says it can make engines faster and at 60% lower cost with additive manufacturing than with conventional manufacturing. The production-ready engine family was developed across twelve months and is part of the Family of Affordable Mass Munitions (FAMM). The Pentagon’s initi