{"id":623447,"date":"2024-06-07T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nato-backs-uk-startup-making-ultralight-materials-for-rockets-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:32:49","slug":"nato-backs-uk-startup-making-ultralight-materials-for-rockets-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nato-backs-uk-startup-making-ultralight-materials-for-rockets-fighter-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"#NATO backs UK startup making ultralight materials for rockets, fighter jets"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n NATO\u2019s Innovation Fund has co-led a $22.5mn (<\/span>\u20ac21mn)<\/span> investment into iCOMAT, a UK startup building ultralight composites for the aerospace, automotive, and defence sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s fund has a budget of <\/span>\u20ac1bn to back startups developing deep tech for defence and security app<\/a>lications. This marks its first public investment since it <\/span>launched last year<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded in 2019 by Greek scientist <\/span>Evangelos Zympeloudis,<\/span> iCOMAT <\/span>has developed a fully automated manufacturing process that turns carbon fibre into lightweight composite materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike conventional methods \u2014 which produce components by stacking multiple straight fibre layers \u2014 the company\u2019s \u201cworld-first\u201d technology<\/a> enables fibre steering. This is the ability to steer the fibres to optimise the properties of a structure at any point.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The science<\/a> is complicated, but the most important thing to understand is that the composite is up to 65% lighter than equivalent materials in use today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For high-performance applications, the benefits are obvious. Lighter materials make for a faster vehicle that uses less fuel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

iCOMAT has already built components for fighter jet panels, space launchers, and Formula 1 cars, it said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201ciCOMAT is solving some of the most critical problems in materials, and the breakthroughs they\u2019re making today will play a decisive role in the future of both combat and mobility,\u201d said Alex Moore, partner 8VC, a Texas-headquartered venture capital firm that co-led the investment alongside NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n

iCOMAT is currently building a 4200-square-metre production facility in Gloucester, UK, to scale up its patented process. The factory should be online by the end of this year.\u00a0<\/span>\n <\/div>\n

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NATO\u2019s Innovation Fund has co-led a $22.5mn (\u20ac21mn) investment into iCOMAT, a UK startup building ultralight composites for the aerospace, automotive, and defence sectors. NATO\u2019s fund has a budget of \u20ac1bn to back startups developing deep tech for defence and security applications. This marks its first public investment since it launched last year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Founded in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw-blurple?filter_last=1&fit=1280%2C640&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F06%2FNATO-iCOMAT-fighter-jet-military-tech.jpg&signature=6ae9655b6b34caa313d856873ddb6191","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}