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Journal by Runaway1956

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:45AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday June 09 2022, @02:45AM (#1251727) Homepage Journal

    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?

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