by Noah Shachtman | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor
The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war.
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 25, 2012 | Monitor
Three weeks after a group of desktop gunsmiths had its leased 3D printer seized by the digital manufacturing firm that owned it, the weaponeers have quietly restarted plans to build a gun entirely of printed parts. The group has also begun expanding their operation...
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 8, 2012 | Monitor
The 3-D printer craze has taken off with everyone from hobbyists and amateur gunsmiths to giant corporations. Less known is how the U.S. military has caught the desktop manufacturing bug too, and is designing printable components for bomb detectors and prototype...
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 4, 2012 | Monitor
Alexander Fishenko is accused of being part of a ring that illegally smuggled semiconductors to Russia. Photo: Odnoklassniki.ru The FBI arrested an alleged cell of Russian spies this week, but the group wasn’t making off with secret documents or classified...
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
Direct digital manufacturing company Stratasys may have pulled the lease on a 3-D printer rented out by a group of unlicensed internet gunsmiths. But they’re all for making money by printing guns. According to internal sales documents acquired by Danger...