MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax-AVN) - The National Institute of Aviation Technologies (NIAT) has designed the KLR-1 high-speed laser system intended for cutting metal blanks used at aerospace industry enterprises and other industries, NIAT Deputy Director General Valentin Matsnev said on Thursday.
The KLR-1 projecting was supervised by designers Gennady Smotritsky and Igor Vanshtein, Matsnev told Interfax-Military News Agency. Researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the system's development too.
KLR-1 is capable of cutting flat blanks of the 1.5x3m dimensions made of stainless, silicon, tool and spring steels and their alloys up to 8mm thick.
High-precision location and spacing of blanks is effected with the help of a digital program stored in the memory of the system's computer. The weight of the blank can reach 600kg. The system's total installed capacity makes 60kW and its weight is 11t. The Savma machine-building plant in the town of Kimry, Tver region, will handle serial production of the system.
Specialists say that KLR-1 can be used in the automobile, shipbuilding, mining, electro-technical and other industries.