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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: 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?