Military

Military-grade composites are used in a number of applications for their low weight, long life and ability to help protect people and equipment from harm. Aerial drones, armored fighting vehicles, submarines and body armor can contain composites materials.

U.S. Army to Refurbish Shelters with Carbon Fiber Composites

In order to address stability, transportation and energy issues with rigid wall shelters, the U.S. Army’s Medical Support Systems Program Management Office (MSS PMO) will use a carbon composite retrofit kit...

DARPA Debuts Unmanned Sea Vessel

During the next two years, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will perform open-water testing of an unmanned surface vessel at Naval Base Point Loma in San...

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New Composite Material Could Provide “Second Skin” for Soldiers

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.) scientists has created a novel carbon nanotube (CNT) composite material that makes uniforms breathable and could protect soldiers from...

New Composite Material Could Reduce Impact of Aircraft and Vehicle Crashes

At the 2016 Farnborough International Air Show, British defense company QinetiQ unveiled a material – a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA), woven into a carbon fiber reinforced polymer – which it says can help...

Three Parts of F-35 Will be Made Entirely with Composites

Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major developer and producer of the U.S. Military’s F-35 weapons system, selected Tulsa-based company NORDAM to manufacture major structural components for the F-35 center...

Diamond Aircraft’s All-Carbon Fiber Aircraft Takes First Flight

Austria-based Diamond Aircraft’s Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer-450 (DART-450), which the company claims is the world’s first all-carbon fiber aircraft, took off for its first flight last week....