Lancer Systems – Experts in lightweight composite design and application

To engineer and manufacture advanced hard-use weapon systems and components for the modern warfighter, law enforcement officer, and competitive shooter.

The wide breadth of composite applications – which includes thermoplastics, thermosets, and ceramic-matrix materials – often provides intrinsic material properties which are superior to metal.  Areas of potential advantage include weight, stiffness-to-weight ratio, self-lubricity, thermal and/or electrical insulation, performance at extreme temperatures (both cryogenic and > 2500°F) and manufacturing cost.

Lancer Systems’ vast experience with composite materials and processes gives us the ability to identify opportunities for our customers in which composites may offer significant advantages to metal, and to design and select appropriate solutions for these applications.

Lancer Systems’ market focus includes application engineering, rapid prototyping, and production volumes typical of defense industry applications.

Lancer designs and manufactures thermoset, thermoplastic, and ceramic matrix composite solutions for the defense and aerospace industries.

THERMOSETS

• Possesses excellent heat resistance, high fatigue strength and superior stiffness vs. weight performance as compared to metals.
• Can be manufactured into large shapes.
• Used in primary- and secondary-structure applications in UAV’s, aircraft panels and other weight-sensitive applications.
• Lancer capabilities include pre-preg hand lay-up, roll-wrapping, in- & out-of-autoclave  processing, as well as compression molding.

THERMOPLASTICS

• Provide excellent durability and impact resistance.  Thermoplastics in many cases can be reformed or repaired.
• Can be manufactured into complex shapes to produce cost-effective secondary structures such as brackets.
• Lancer capabilities include compression molding and machining of stock shapes.  Lancer leverages  Greene, Tweed and other industry partners for injection mold.

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES

• Well-suited for extreme high temperatures (in excess of 2500°F).
• Provide superior toughness when compared to monolithic ceramics.
• Can be manufactured into complex shapes for applications such as jet-engine  components, exoatmosphere vehicle  attitude control systems, and extreme temperature thermal barriers.
• The Polymer Infiltration and Pyrolysis (PIP) process used by Lancer provides higher throughput of larger parts as compared to the Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) process

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