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Remember the first 3D printed pistol? That's ancient news.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/youtuber-3d-prints-world-first-rocket-launcher-and-fires-target

YouTuber 3D Prints "World's First" Rocket Launcher And Fires At Target

3D printing has revolutionized gun-making and has come a long way since the single-shot "The Liberator" pistol was available for download in 2013. Now entire semiautomatic pistol carbines can be entirely printed at home, and weapon-making appears to have graduated to rocket launchers.

Youtuber "Ordnance Lab" (also known as Ordnance Lab LLC and holds a Type 10 FFL) published a video showing what they say is the "world's first 3D printed rocket launcher."

"In this video we team up with D&S Creations, who have developed 3D printed rockets and rocket launchers. We test both a smaller caliber rocket and a larger one, along with a prototype for a shaped charge warhead. This is just the start of our working on 3D printed rockets. We have the launch and detonation figured out, now we need to work on getting the accuracy figured out," Ordnance Lab said in the video's description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnkXoB3b2W8&t=261s

https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1506660450083115016

Deterrence Dispensed, the controversial 3D-printed weapons syndicate (co-founded by JStark), has recently released a new project.

This is a 66mm recoilless launcher with shoulder rest attachments, allowing it to convert to a mortar on the go.

Within a decade, 3D printing weapons have evolved from single-shot pistols to semiautomatic pistol carbines to rocket launchers. How is President Biden's ATF going to counter people printing weapons at home? The simple answer is they can't unless they ban printers and polylactic acid (PLA) filament, which we believe will be impossible...

Maybe instead of sending Ukraine another $40 billion of high dollar weapons, we can just send them some 3D printers?

 

Reply to: The high tech weapons are needed

    (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 08 2022, @02:52PM

    by DannyB (5839) on Wednesday June 08 2022, @02:52PM (#1251546)

    Maybe instead of sending Ukraine another $40 billion of high dollar weapons, we can just send them some 3D printers?

    I know your master Putin would just love this idea.

    Ukraine needs high tech weapons to hit precise targets from a distance. Killing tanks. Shooting artillery from a great distance.

    Oh, did anyone mention that high tech drones have been invaluable for Ukraine in defending itself in this unjustified war of aggression from Russia? Can these drones be 3D printed?

    As far as I know, 3D printed weapons are still just unguided dumb guns.

    3D printed dumb guns may be great for sleeping with (for people so inclined) or for engaging in Rambo fantasies of a good guy with a gun, but they are one small tool in a war to defend the homeland.

    What would you say if someone suggested that the United States should use 3D printed dumb guns to defend itself from a high tech invader? Or defend against an internal domestic terrorist group?

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