The Explosive Frontier: Additive Manufacturing and the Strategic Transformation of Energetic Materials

Reframing Energetics in the Era of Digital Manufacturing For decades, the production of propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics has remained one of the least digitized segments of advanced manufacturing—constrained by legacy processes such as casting, pressing, and extrusion that date back to the mid-20th century. These methods impose severe geometric limitations, long production cycles, and significant…