Possibilities of additive technologies application in designing and manufacturing of weapons of military equipment
One of the priority areas for the development of modern mechanical engineering is the transition to advanced digital and intelligent production technologies, and additive technologies dominate in them. Today, the direction of development of additive technologies has gone beyond the framework of research and development work, which in turn allows us to consider them as an independent production process or, at least, the implementation of technological production processes. An integral part of modern domestic mechanical engineering is the production of weapons, military and special equipment. Additive technologies are considered in the article as a promising cost-effective method of manufacturing metal products in order to improve the manufacturability of production processes for the manufacture of modern weapons, military and special equipment. The advantages of the production of metal products by the layer-by-layer synthesis method are shown in comparison with the already existing and well-established methods used in special mechanical engineering at the present time. The comparison of the categories of additive technologies with different methods of implementation, different sources of thermal energy and different forms of material is carried out. Possible ways of increasing the operational characteristics of reliability and durability of both existing models of weapons of military and special equipment, and those in the process of design and pilot production through the use of additive technologies in the manufacture of parts and assembly units from metals and alloys that have not previously been used from for low economic efficiency in traditional technologies. The analysis of the possibility and feasibility of using additive technologies as the implementation of technological processes for the production of weapons of military and special equipment by enterprises of the domestic military-industrial complex.