Why Tungsten Heavy Alloy Used In Military Defense?

Tungsten heavy alloy is also known as high-density tungsten alloy, WHA, HD alloy, or heavy alloy. The alloy is named as a heavy alloy because of its high-density property that is from 17 g/cc to 18.5 g/cc. these alloys have 90% to 97% pure tungsten metal in the nickel and iron or copper and nickel matrix. These additional alloying elements improve the machinability and ductility of heavy alloys than pure tungsten. Either it is in the form of a tungsten alloy plate or tungsten alloy sheet, all the tungsten heavy alloy has the important characteristic of high density. Moreover, it has high heat-resistance, easy to fabricate, high strength, and environmental-friendly. These characteristics lead to various applications such as industrial, medical, consumer, aerospace, and military. The heavy tungsten heavy alloy is available in a great range of sizes and shapes including milled forms as sheets, cubes, sphere, tubes, plates, rods, and specific drawings custom fabricated forms.

Tungsten Alloy Military Defense:

This heavy alloy is adopted increasingly adopted in defense as the raw materials of military products parts like armor and shells, bullet, grenade, bullet warheads, hunting gun, tank panzers, firearms, cannons, bulletproof vehicles, etc.

A tungsten heavy alloy is majorly used in the kinetic energy penetrators. Its significant mass is used at military training facilities to produce 5.56 mm ammunition. It is used in fixed firing position ranges that contain tungsten in the mass concentrations percent.

Tungsten alloy army application:

The powder metallurgy is used by the army which is extended from the conventional sinter and press to the exotic processes of sintering liquid phase of tungsten alloys and powdered injection moldings. The navy takes the advantages of heavy, strong tungsten alloy by using them in the close-in weapon system. It is used as a long rod penetrator also, which performs better than depleted uranium penetrators. In the defense industries, the tungsten heavy alloys are the ideal choice to design various equipment. this alloy is the perfect material as it combines high density and also good mechanical strength to military defense materials.