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by indrax 13y ago
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The letter references a number of items besides the printable gun, including "125mm BK-14M high-explosive anti-tank warhead" Which sounds rather closer to matching the intent of the munitions export regulations.
- fleitz 13y agoIt's just another file on the defcad site, usual government confusion around files hosted on the internet. You can pick up most of what you need to know about anti-tank warheads from a Tom Clancy book, or any library book about shaped charges. For most people an anti-tank warhead is going to be useless in the context of how to disable a tank.
- srathi 13y ago+1 for the Tom Clancy reference.
- cynwoody 13y agoOr just surf to the Wikipedia if you are too lazy to go the library. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator Of course, perusing the above link, it would seem the main limitation on proliferation is chemical synthesis of the HE, not 3D printing technology.
- tomjen3 13y agoCan you expand on your last sentence?
- fleitz 13y agoYou need a way to deliver the warhead perpendicular to armour plate of the tank with sufficient force to disable the various safeties. If you don't accomplish all those things then the shaped charge will do virtually nothing to the armour plate. As far as I know it's difficult to 3D print 88mm cannons.
- smsm42 13y agoDo you really think you can have functioning anti-tank warhead 3d-printed out of plastic?