Near Los Angeles, the company Divergent Technologies has launched an innovative production facility that could become the basis of the American arsenal of the future.
The company’s workshops are equipped with giant 3D printers the size of a shipping container, which, under the control of artificial intelligence, create hulls for cruise missiles from aluminum and secret alloys layer by layer. Such technologies allow the production of new-generation weapons, the cost of which is from 200 to 500 thousand dollars, which is almost ten times less than traditional systems that cost the budget 2-6 million dollars per unit.
Divergent CEO Lucas Zinger notes that, with modern methods, the United States can build the world’s most powerful industrial base.
The plant operates on the principle of “one factory – any product”. The same installations that print missiles can produce suspension parts for McLaren supercars without reconfiguration. Thanks to this approach, the company recently went from a rocket sketch on a blackboard to its first flight in just 71 days.