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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?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 08 2022, @02:52PM (23 children)
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?
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @05:21PM
You don't have to use a launcher, you could just hold the rocket. You don't need to have a bazooka, either, but if you do, you can stand behind it for a much better view.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by NPC-131072 on Wednesday June 08 2022, @06:11PM (1 child)
Drones can be 3D printed but only Conservitards think 3D printing could be of any military use. [3dprintingindustry.com] First thing Republicans think of with 3D printing is suppression. [armourersbench.com]
As someone on the morally and intellectually superior left, I want to 3d print a robot. [metal-am.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @06:27PM
What was that company a couple of days ago, who had been working on something-lethal shooting attack drones, but shut the whole thing down, when their entire ethics committee quit?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 08 2022, @09:01PM (13 children)
Hungry children in Africa need food - but we don't send $40 billion dollars to them. Tell me again why we are funding Zelensky's war?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @09:36PM (3 children)
Putin apologist strikes again.
What part of 'Vlad is a cunt' do you not understand?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @09:46PM (1 child)
That's inflation for you. We really can't expect much any more from those 50¢ posts. Maybe if the CCP can chip in another 6¢, they'll improve.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @10:23PM
Wow, the irony
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:56PM
How much more whatabout can you get than 'whatabout the starving kids in Africa?!'
Pretty sure was the first whataboutism ever used!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @01:38AM (2 children)
Given the rest of your positions, your opposition to war does not fit.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:45AM
Perhaps you fail to understand me, or my positions. Opposition to the Ukraine war is justifiable for several separate reasons.
1. Ukraine had options that would have prevented the war.
2. Some call this a 'proxy' war, but there is no proxy on the other side. It's half the world against a nuclear power. And, that's some very serious, very dangerous shit.
3. Ukraine should be paying for it's own war, just as the EU should have been paying their 'fair share' of NATO and EU defenses all along. WTF do American taxpayers pay for most of the wars in the world?
4. War is almost always bad. Lots of people always get killed who have no position in the war. No dog in the fight, but the dogs eat them anyway.
5. I just don't give that big a fuck about Ukraine.
6. I just don't give that big a fuck about Russia.
7. It's curious that the Dems who have cultivated a belief that Republicans are the war hawks are so heavily invested in keeping the war going.
8. I'm sick of Americans profiteering by way of the Military Industrial Complex in every conflict around the world.
And, oh yeah. I've opposed wars in the past. The last military action that I approved of, was Afghanistan, and that was totally bungled. Should have been a short and decisive punitive campaign, but it turned into a 20 year occupation. Total bullshit. Iraq was total bullshit. Syria is total bullshit. ISIS was less bullshit, but, as an offshoot of Al Queda, which we created and nurtured, it was still bullshit. Need I go on?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:54PM
He doesn't oppose war.
He opposes Biden and if war is something he needs to pretend to care about to do it that's what he'll pretend to care about.
Notice there were zero peeps out of hem when Trump increased drone strikes by 4x in the middle east. [suntimes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @01:50AM (2 children)
"Zelensky's war?" Please... he's the puppet, as if you people didn't know
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:12AM (1 child)
Lol "you people"
Angry Russian shills upset that the Russian war of aggression is being seen for what it is and everyone refuses to believe Ukraine started it. How does your body even survive after that much lobotomy?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @04:30PM
When it's lobotomy vs eating, some people will chose lobotomy.
Although to be fair; it's really no worse than the lobotomy performed to work at a call center!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:52PM
We send them about 10 billion per year. [usaid.gov] So every four years that's exactly what we do.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @03:32PM (1 child)
It's Putin's war. We're just helping Ukraine defend itself you insufferable asshole tankie.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @04:32PM
First time I've seen "tankie" used 'round these parts.
How do you define that term?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2022, @10:08PM (5 children)
Just pointing out, both the shooters in Philly had concealed carry permits. Assaulting Weapons purchased for Buffalo and Uvalde both legal purchases. 3-D printers are toys for incels who don't know how to use a lathe or milling machine, or a forge and a rifling jig.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 09 2022, @03:18AM (3 children)
I kinda tend to agree with you. But, how much does a 3D printer cost, in comparison to equipping a machine shop? A brand new state-of-the-art printer is going to cost less than your machine shop, even if you equip the shop with bargain basement used equipment. Granted, you can turn out better quality products in the machine shop - but few people appreciate quality these days. Remember, almost everyone in America shops at Walmart, Target, K-mart, and similar, or they are shopping Amazon for Chinese imports.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:48AM (2 children)
3-5 times. Seriously, you are an idiot, Runaway. Have you ever spun metal while the clock runs? Or just playing with the toys your employer buys for you, that you do not understand?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:19AM (1 child)
Cheap CNC milling machines are under a grand now. And if you know enough to build a gun, you'll get a much higher quality piece using one of them than you will 3-D printing one.
Any decently motivated metal worker - pro or hobbyist - has always been able to build a gun. Given cheap modern tools and on-line designs, that same moderately competent guy/girl can now build a fully automatic rifle in any calibre you like.
I was going to say "I'm surprised that there aren't videos on you-tube of people firing home-made 1200 rpm 0.22LR machine guns" but I just had a look and there are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Aw6-XSA7Q [youtube.com]
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:47AM
At under $1000, you get a glorified engraver, not a CNC milling machine.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @04:34PM
3d printed weapons are a distraction that I wish the folks on the left would stop falling for!
"New scary" sells headlines though....