There’s “Islamophobic,” “homophobic” and “transphobic’ – all of which are bad things, apparently, in the U.S. military.
But it seems “sandphobic” is good. Very, very good, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The endorsement of “sandphobic” comes from a U.S. Army report on a new effort to develop ways to help military equipment, especially big-ticket items such as jets and helicopters, operate more safely in regions of the world such as the Middle East.
The issue isn’t complicated: When operating machinery meets up with sand particles, it fails more frequently.
After all, whenever there’s a volcanic eruption, airlines steer clear of the region for days, sometimes even weeks, because ash particles can get inside jet engines, grind down operating parts and make them fail.
It’s much the same with military jets and helicopters when they operate over sandy, dry regions, such as the Middle East, some parts of Asia and Africa.
According to a report from David McNally of the public affairs office at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, scientists at the research laboratory there are testing various coatings in high-temperature environments in an effort to find “something – anything – that will cause sand to slide off the inside of a turbine engine the way an egg slides off a nonstick skillet.”
“We are going through a very methodical process to understand the underpinning science and then use the science to predict the materials, what we call the engineered or tailored materials, that will lead to the right solution,” explained Anindya Ghoshal of the lab’s Vehicle Technology Directorate.
He describes the coatings being sought as “sandphobic.”
Reported the Army, “In regions like Southwest Asia … Army forces frequently must contend with brown-out conditions, during which sand particulates and other dust particulates are ingested into the engines.”
The Army said its goal is “to have the particles strike the blades or vanes [inside a gas turbine engine] and then flake off.”
“We want to understand the physical, chemical behavior. Once we can do that, then our idea is to take that model and then predict the type of material that would enable us to develop this sandphobic coating.”
For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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