I’ve come to realize the Ukrainians are very smart and the orcs are, well lets just say they are called orcs for good reason.
I bet all western military is taking note and learning a lot from what is happening in Ukraine right now, how to train citizens very quickly, how to use drones, what works, what doesn’t… maybe recruiting and training drone operators, improving methods to scale up their production cheaply, making them more efd active and reliable… If Ukraine can do it, improving out of necessity, I can’t even imagine what the US, UK, Germany etc are doing right now…
Go get them!
I keep thinking, it would be amazing if the frame and such could be made from an explosive composite, thus maximising pay load.
The Ukrainian brains will defeat the Russian bruan! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
There is a new blade design for Drone fans that are almost whisper silent… they are just a different shape… (kinda looks like a figure 8 or infinity symbol) they should update their 3d print designs to incorporate that shape… it would make their drones whisper Quiet for the battle field.
Ukraine will be world leader in small drone tech
Why aren’t small gasoline engines used more? Don’t they have more capability because fuel weighs less than batteries?
the arms of the drone if was…something like of the shelf plastic pipe..woldnt be faster and easyer to make? leaving the more detailed parts for 3d printing…im noob on this stuff…just curiosity. in the end they fly, so all good
Amazing and scary seeing this. I built and raced FPV quads several years ago and always thought they could be a weapon of war. I also worry terrorist will begin to use them, but man are the fun to fly. Crazy to see the extent to which they’ve been used in this war. 🇺🇦
I would imagine there’s some mass production of drones in Ukraine, using injection moulding and die-casting, which would increase production rates. The problems with this approach are:
1) Tooling up is very expensive. Once you’ve got a design you’re stuck with it. If battlefield circumstances require a different design, you have to retool and spend 10s of thousands of $$ each time a change is made. To make a change to a 3D printed part you only need to change the CAD model and then print, test and improve it for nearly $0.
2) Mass production equipment requires a degree of centralization of resources. One missile or Shaheed drone could take out the whole factory. 3D printers can be distributed among small enterprises, homes or apartments all over the country. Impossible for the invader to wipe out.
3D printing may seem at first glance to be a lot slower, but with thousands of 3D printers working 24/7 to produce parts, they’re managing very good production rates and in a way that is very difficult to disrupt. This is a war-torn country fighting for its survival. We’ve got to remember that when evaluating how the Ukrainians are doing things. Having been involved for many years in design, R&D and mass production of lots of things, I’ve got the greatest admiration for their ingenuity and ability to muster resources and solve their own problems, while creating huge dilemmas for the invader.
Like a little accurate buzzy bee
what cams, chips using they are?
What you’re seeing is Advanced Warfare.
Hey a read a poorly auto-translated thing on Magyars TG page last night about China putting a stop to the export of drones and drone components starting September 1 – seeing that it was a translation of his idiosyncratic writing style, I could not tell if it was something that actually happened, was threatened, or what. Anyone else heard of this?
Anyone know if I can 3d Print parts and ship them?
I was just watching a vid on optical fibre controlled drones the Russians have purchased from China, they don’t use any radio, they’re controlled by a spool of optical fibre, making them difficult to jam.
A report the other day said they can now produce 2,000,000 a year.
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I’ve come to realize the Ukrainians are very smart and the orcs are, well lets just say they are called orcs for good reason.
I bet all western military is taking note and learning a lot from what is happening in Ukraine right now, how to train citizens very quickly, how to use drones, what works, what doesn’t… maybe recruiting and training drone operators, improving methods to scale up their production cheaply, making them more efd active and reliable…
If Ukraine can do it, improving out of necessity, I can’t even imagine what the US, UK, Germany etc are doing right now…
Go get them!
I keep thinking, it would be amazing if the frame and such could be made from an explosive composite, thus maximising pay load.
The Ukrainian brains will defeat the Russian bruan! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
There is a new blade design for Drone fans that are almost whisper silent… they are just a different shape… (kinda looks like a figure 8 or infinity symbol) they should update their 3d print designs to incorporate that shape… it would make their drones whisper Quiet for the battle field.
Ukraine will be world leader in small drone tech
Why aren’t small gasoline engines used more? Don’t they have more capability because fuel weighs less than batteries?
the arms of the drone if was…something like of the shelf plastic pipe..woldnt be faster and easyer to make? leaving the more detailed parts for 3d printing…im noob on this stuff…just curiosity. in the end they fly, so all good
Amazing and scary seeing this. I built and raced FPV quads several years ago and always thought they could be a weapon of war. I also worry terrorist will begin to use them, but man are the fun to fly. Crazy to see the extent to which they’ve been used in this war. 🇺🇦
I would imagine there’s some mass production of drones in Ukraine, using injection moulding and die-casting, which would increase production rates. The problems with this approach are:
1) Tooling up is very expensive. Once you’ve got a design you’re stuck with it. If battlefield circumstances require a different design, you have to retool and spend 10s of thousands of $$ each time a change is made. To make a change to a 3D printed part you only need to change the CAD model and then print, test and improve it for nearly $0.
2) Mass production equipment requires a degree of centralization of resources. One missile or Shaheed drone could take out the whole factory. 3D printers can be distributed among small enterprises, homes or apartments all over the country. Impossible for the invader to wipe out.
3D printing may seem at first glance to be a lot slower, but with thousands of 3D printers working 24/7 to produce parts, they’re managing very good production rates and in a way that is very difficult to disrupt. This is a war-torn country fighting for its survival. We’ve got to remember that when evaluating how the Ukrainians are doing things. Having been involved for many years in design, R&D and mass production of lots of things, I’ve got the greatest admiration for their ingenuity and ability to muster resources and solve their own problems, while creating huge dilemmas for the invader.
Like a little accurate buzzy bee
what cams, chips using they are?
What you’re seeing is Advanced Warfare.
Hey a read a poorly auto-translated thing on Magyars TG page last night about China putting a stop to the export of drones and drone components starting September 1 – seeing that it was a translation of his idiosyncratic writing style, I could not tell if it was something that actually happened, was threatened, or what. Anyone else heard of this?
Anyone know if I can 3d Print parts and ship them?
I was just watching a vid on optical fibre controlled drones the Russians have purchased from China, they don’t use any radio, they’re controlled by a spool of optical fibre, making them difficult to jam.
A report the other day said they can now produce 2,000,000 a year.