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J Group Robotics Sells Indian National Aerospace Laboratories Their Domestically Built 3D Printer
India’s defense budget stands at well over $40 billion, and at this point, most of those funds are used to procure arms and ammunition from foreign sources, the U.S., Russia and France among them. India, though it has developed a domestic ballistic missile defense system, has yet to design and build a domestically-crafted fighter aircraft, so they rely on foreign providers. And procuring advanced fighter aircraft is no easy business. Another problem? Once a government has managed to include such aircraft in their arsenals, they begin to understand the difficulty of overhauling and maintaining the high-tech machines.
The Indians were recently unsettled as Pakistan received access to the highly advanced F16 fighter jets from the US as part of an initiative known as the Fight Against Terror Campaign. In answer to that perceived threat from their neighbors, the Indian Air force quickly signed a deal with the French which brought 36 Rafale fighter jets into their forces in a deal worth a staggering $6 billion.
But the Indian Government, not content to rest on those planes as a sufficient safeguard, has also committed to upgrading the country’s existing – and aging – stock of French Mirage fighter jets.
As part of that initiative, the Indian government asked Indian National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) to re-engineer those fighter jets with an eye toward upgrading them.
To take on the job, the National Aerospace Laboratories purchase a series of 3D printers they plan to use to build prototype models of spare parts and study the feasibility of using those parts as replacements for the fighter jets in the air force.
While NAL says they were already in possession of a number of Stratasys 3D printers, they were wary of the costs involved in using that company’s proprietary raw materials.
To counter that concern, NAL turned to a domestic firm, J Group Robotics, to supply them with a Dimension Delta X, an all metal Dual nozzle FDM 3D printer.
The Dimension Delta X, with it’s build volume of 420720x 420 mm, can print at 50 micron resolution with materials like ABS, PLA, Nylon, PVA, PP, TGlass, wood, stone, HIPS and carbon fiber, and the NAL says the raw material it uses is available for as little as $30 per kg. In comparison, the Stratasys machines use considerably more expensive raw materials.
Researchers at NAL say they’re satisfied with the print quality of the new devices and have already begun wind tunnel testing of landing gear parts made using the Dimension Delta X.
J Group Robotics Sells Indian National Aerospace Laboratories On Their Domestically Built 3D Printer - 3DPrint.com
3 D Printer In India , 3D Printer Applications & Industries in India – 3D Printing – Printware – Rapid Prototyping In India
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Nice decision by the Government considering that the minimum price of Stratasys 3D printer is $6110.03 which in today's conversion rate equals to near about Rs 380K much higher then the jgrouprobotics printer priced at Rs. 127K....
Stratasys Pricelist (Price list of Stratays Printers)
India’s defense budget stands at well over $40 billion, and at this point, most of those funds are used to procure arms and ammunition from foreign sources, the U.S., Russia and France among them. India, though it has developed a domestic ballistic missile defense system, has yet to design and build a domestically-crafted fighter aircraft, so they rely on foreign providers. And procuring advanced fighter aircraft is no easy business. Another problem? Once a government has managed to include such aircraft in their arsenals, they begin to understand the difficulty of overhauling and maintaining the high-tech machines.
The Indians were recently unsettled as Pakistan received access to the highly advanced F16 fighter jets from the US as part of an initiative known as the Fight Against Terror Campaign. In answer to that perceived threat from their neighbors, the Indian Air force quickly signed a deal with the French which brought 36 Rafale fighter jets into their forces in a deal worth a staggering $6 billion.
But the Indian Government, not content to rest on those planes as a sufficient safeguard, has also committed to upgrading the country’s existing – and aging – stock of French Mirage fighter jets.
As part of that initiative, the Indian government asked Indian National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) to re-engineer those fighter jets with an eye toward upgrading them.
To take on the job, the National Aerospace Laboratories purchase a series of 3D printers they plan to use to build prototype models of spare parts and study the feasibility of using those parts as replacements for the fighter jets in the air force.
While NAL says they were already in possession of a number of Stratasys 3D printers, they were wary of the costs involved in using that company’s proprietary raw materials.
To counter that concern, NAL turned to a domestic firm, J Group Robotics, to supply them with a Dimension Delta X, an all metal Dual nozzle FDM 3D printer.
The Dimension Delta X, with it’s build volume of 420720x 420 mm, can print at 50 micron resolution with materials like ABS, PLA, Nylon, PVA, PP, TGlass, wood, stone, HIPS and carbon fiber, and the NAL says the raw material it uses is available for as little as $30 per kg. In comparison, the Stratasys machines use considerably more expensive raw materials.
Researchers at NAL say they’re satisfied with the print quality of the new devices and have already begun wind tunnel testing of landing gear parts made using the Dimension Delta X.
J Group Robotics Sells Indian National Aerospace Laboratories On Their Domestically Built 3D Printer - 3DPrint.com
3 D Printer In India , 3D Printer Applications & Industries in India – 3D Printing – Printware – Rapid Prototyping In India
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Nice decision by the Government considering that the minimum price of Stratasys 3D printer is $6110.03 which in today's conversion rate equals to near about Rs 380K much higher then the jgrouprobotics printer priced at Rs. 127K....
Stratasys Pricelist (Price list of Stratays Printers)
