The phenomena known as "Adiabatic Softening" was first observed in World War II when scientists discovered that piercing several inches of armor plates at extreme velocities produced clean holes with little distortion to the surrounding area.

In the 1960's, in an effort to study and further develop adiabatic softening, researchers relied on explosive to achieve the necessary ram velocities. This approach was not only slow, but was exceedingly dangerous. Eventually the process was all but abandoned as being a "non-commercial" area of interest.

LMC's successful development of the adiabatic process depended, in large part, on our ability to control energy. That is why, when a customer discusses our patented adiabatic process with us, we talk about "energy" output and not tonnage.