
US Joint Effort Tests At-Sea Metal 3D Printing, RIMPAC 2026
A US joint-branch effort deployed a SPEE3D cold spray metal printing system aboard the Canadian support vessel MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, marking the first at-sea use of the technology. The exercise examined whether mission-critical replacement parts could be manufactured at the point of need rather than sourced through a conventional supply chain. The work…
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