Posted on Dec 10, 2017

Chattanooga firm to help U.S. Navy figure out how to 3-D print explosives [photos]

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E&G recently won a $150,000 federal grant to help the Navy figure out how to turn plastic explosives into a nylon powder that can be fed into an off-the-shelf Hewlett Packard 3-D printer to make explosives charges of varying shapes.

Chattanooga firm to help U.S. Navy figure out how to 3-D print explosives [photos]

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Posted 7 y ago

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

Posted 7 y ago

Gives a whole new meaning to saying the printer just blew up.

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Capt Dwayne Conyers

Posted 7 y ago

Watch out for broken hearts on Valentine's Day...

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Anthony Ragland

Posted 7 y ago

Interesting

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Chattanooga firm to help U.S. Navy figure out how to 3-D print explosives [photos]

Chattanooga firm to help U.S. Navy figure out how to 3-D print explosives [photos]

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