by Jordan Golson | Sep 16, 2014 | Monitor
We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes—now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense. In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a...
by Jordan Golson | Sep 16, 2014 | Monitor
We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes—now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense. In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a...
by Robert Beckhusen | May 17, 2013 | Monitor
Printable drones, limbs and ammunition. It’s a far-out vision, but more and more military officers are starting to think that future troops will rely on 3-D printers to manufacture the tools of war.
by Robert Beckhusen | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
They started by printing their own gun parts and magazines. Now the internet gunsmiths at Defense Distributed have produced the world’s first fully 3-D printed gun. It’s been tested, and it works.
by Robert Beckhusen | Apr 2, 2013 | Monitor
Tomorrow’s Navy could use 3-D printers on a vast scale, printing everything from food to spare parts, and building vast “biomining” ships that harvest resources — if the service listens to two of its lieutenants.