KULR Technology Group delivers thermal design services to Tier-1 hypersonic weapons manufacturer

KULR Technology Group Inc (OTCQB:KULR) announced Thursday that it has provided thermal management design services to a Tier-1 aerospace and defense technology manufacturer. The company’s technology is designed to improve thermal subsystems that are needed to increase performance of hypersonic weapons. “Efficient thermal management is a critical component of hypersonic weapons,” said Michael Carpenter, KULR’s vice president of Engineering. “Our engineers have already designed and built the evaporative cooling device for the DAQ and transmitter modules in the nose of the X-51 Waverider, and from this project we amassed a lot of technical insight. Using this knowledge, it is fairly straight-forward for us to adapt our technology to serve the needs of next-generation hypersonic weapons.” READ: KULR Technology Group announces “strong” preliminary 4Q revenue of up to $250,000 Hypersonic strike systems are valued for their unique war-fighting aspects of range, speed, maneuverability, survivability and lethality, according to Mike White, assistant director of hypersonics at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.  These features make the development of — and investment in — improved hypersonic systems a priority for the Department of Defense, the company said. A Congressional Research Services report released in December showed that the Pentagon's FY2021 budget request for hypersonic-related research is $3.2 billion, up from $2.6 billion in the prior year’s request, the company noted.  “As the national need for long-range airborne vehicles grows, and commercial demonstrations like SpaceX continue to show the viability of reusable space and suborbital vehicles, active and passive heat management become increasingly critical elements to mission success,” Dave Harden, CEO of The Outpost and KULR advisory board member, said in a statement. “KULR’s closed loop core cooling technology, along with its problem-solving team, are rapidly establishing themselves as essential building blocks for hypersonics, space vehicles, long range stand-off weapons and long loiter drones.” KULR's advanced phase-change heatsink design services will assist the manufacturer in the design of hypersonic weapons with longer range and larger kinetic power than existing systems, which are limited by their inability to disperse heat, the company said. The ability to keep inner bay components cool within extremely hot outer skin environments while maintaining the highest safety levels is essential to mission success and market dominance. Contact Andrew Kessel at andrew.kessel@proactiveinvestors.com Follow him on Twitter @andrew_kessel