Next-Generation Advanced Ammunition Alloy Production Technologies

该项目旨在解决澳大利亚弹药供应链和安全方面的一个重大缺陷，提供合金解决方案，绕过目前从外国作为半成品进口的能源密集型弹药生产步骤。通过使用一系列创新的新合金设计方法，从根本上解决合金强度、可加工性和可浇注性问题，该项目预计将提供符合澳大利亚现有现代经济生产技术的更高性能的弹壳合金，而现有的弹壳黄铜是无法做到的。这将提供灵活、具有成本竞争力和安全的主权弹药供应链，同时提高弹药性能。

This project aims to address a major shortfall in Australia’s ammunition supply chain and security by providing alloy solutions that enable the bypassing of the energy-intensive ammunition production steps currently imported from foreign nations as semi-finished products. By using a range of innovative new alloy design approaches that fundamentally address alloy strength, workability and castability, this project expects to provide higher performance cartridge alloys amenable to modern economic production technologies available within Australia simply not possible with existing cartridge brass. This shall provide a flexible, cost-competitive and secure sovereign ammunition supply chain while simultaneously improving ammunition performance.