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Yup. I hope it's "not good" for you in the most totally "not good" way possible. 
 

Yup. I hope it's "not good" for you in the most totally "not good" way possible. 
 

Yup. I hope it's "not good" for you in the most totally "not good" way possible. 
 

Why bother with 3d printing? Its not faster for plastics than just stamping out forms. Would it not be easier to just create a mold (costly, sorta slow) and then just stamp out standerized bunker shells using heavy duty plastic mixed with kevlar? Once you get a floor line going it could complete hundreds in a day, using that one mold. 
These could form the basic interiors and act as the internal formers for rebar concrete poured over them in-situ. A further liner inside to catch shrapnel/flakes from impacts would help. 
3D printing has certain applications but its hard to beat the 10,000 year old concept of simple molds for just rapid, fast production using basic materials. Way less moving parts, for one!
3D printed ballistic materials could offer significant breakthoughs - but I suspect we're quite a while away from beating the layering system of kevlar on cost & time.

Interesting. 
 

OT, but I know one of the DPs from the new version. It's done a really good job. He spoke very highly of the creative process. 
 

Interesting. 
 

I'm not sure about this - FPVs are certainly doing a lot of damage, but it was artillery & glide bombs that were the drivers for UKR to get out of Avdiivka. Shelling still happens constantly and a bunker that can resist shelling can resist an FPV. The entrance is the weakpoint, which could be countered by layer physical and EW aspects - eg, a right angle in the entrance hallway, some very short range but powerful jammer at the entrance and decent door?

Heh
 
 

UKR jet drone (ersatz-cruise missile) with a speed 432 km/h. The range is unknown. Passed tests today

And again about pathfinding issues and need of implementation in CM something like "fog of route" for armored vehicle drivers.
Bakhmut direction - drone operators of 92nd assault brigade watched how one Russian BTR-82A has droven to the ditch or natural terrain pit and other BTR has droven directly to a pound. Drivers of this VTR have NV device %) If it operational of course.
   
Day cadres from this place - UKR operators laugh over Russian driver, who sits near the pound and probably thinks how much money HQ will grab from him for sunken vehicle and how much strong he will be fu....d. 
 

The work of pyrotechnicians of State Emergency Service this morning in Kyiv - they loaded an unexploded Kh-101 warhead, moved it out of the city and blew up. You can watch a process. Settlers of this house can celebrete own second birthday
 

Yay 

Remember plastic is very flammable so not good in combat - you would need a different material. Buildings are BIG and use a lot of material, so 3d printing is not going to beat mass production economically except for some quite specialised use cases. (This is a big subject that I have studied but I don't want to go OT)
I am no expert on Kevlar but in construction carbon fibre is sometimes used - the downsides are that 1) steel offers most of the performance and a fraction of the price and 2) it burns. It ends up used in very specialised cases only. 
The other reason why steel is almost always going to be best in "dynamic situations" is that it fails very gracefully by bending rather than snapping. Modern steels (even low grade construction steel) are really good and really cheap so very difficult to beat, especially if they are surrounded by concrete for fire protection and extra mass. 
Basically the "best" bunker for mass production is likely what we have already seen - factory made reinforced concrete panels, welded together on site then covered in soil. Cheap, quick to assemble and robust (at least for a few years before they start to rust due to sloppy construction)

Why bother with 3d printing? Its not faster for plastics than just stamping out forms. Would it not be easier to just create a mold (costly, sorta slow) and then just stamp out standerized bunker shells using heavy duty plastic mixed with kevlar? Once you get a floor line going it could complete hundreds in a day, using that one mold. 
These could form the basic interiors and act as the internal formers for rebar concrete poured over them in-situ. A further liner inside to catch shrapnel/flakes from impacts would help. 
3D printing has certain applications but its hard to beat the 10,000 year old concept of simple molds for just rapid, fast production using basic materials. Way less moving parts, for one!
3D printed ballistic materials could offer significant breakthoughs - but I suspect we're quite a while away from beating the layering system of kevlar on cost & time.

Seems a bit far away for a HMG to be accurate enough to catch a missile going at least 200 m/s...
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Why bother with 3d printing? Its not faster for plastics than just stamping out forms. Would it not be easier to just create a mold (costly, sorta slow) and then just stamp out standerized bunker shells using heavy duty plastic mixed with kevlar? Once you get a floor line going it could complete hundreds in a day, using that one mold. 
These could form the basic interiors and act as the internal formers for rebar concrete poured over them in-situ. A further liner inside to catch shrapnel/flakes from impacts would help. 
3D printing has certain applications but its hard to beat the 10,000 year old concept of simple molds for just rapid, fast production using basic materials. Way less moving parts, for one!
3D printed ballistic materials could offer significant breakthoughs - but I suspect we're quite a while away from beating the layering system of kevlar on cost & time.

Fully agree, ref plastics. I think most proper structural 3D printing is focussed on other materials - concrete mostly but I've also seen liquified wood products. 
3D printing is fantastic for shaping a form so its the darling child of modern architects for designing (speaking as a former architect). Engineers, in my experience, are usually a lot more circumspect - not because of ignorance or inability to see the possibilities but simple realities of physics and materials science. 3D printing does many things but not certain things. A gain somewhere (e.g. a hyper-parabolic wall built quickly) has a cost somewhere else (structural integrity under dynamic stress loads).
Everything is a trade-off, physics isn't free.

It's because the attack was all directed on Kyiv with strongest AD shield in Ukraine. If each city had the same protection, the total result would be like this.
It was at 5:00 I heard two Patriots launches, then heavy boom so windows shaken. It was Kinzhal or Iskander interception - it came from NE direction, were my district is located, so interception of ballistic missiles add some adrenaline %) Then, since 5 minutes one more (aero)ballistic target was destroyed, but slightly further. Then I heard 2-3 distant booms - all other missiles flew from western direction and were intercepted there - it's too far from me. 
 But anyway, several Kh-101 were intercepted over the city and hit the ground in residental areas  - 12 citizens were wounded. Damaged several buildings, one workshop, kindergarden, church, local power substation. Several cars burnt. 
Here fragment of missile impacted on the street not far from one of specific object %) and damaged buildings around - probably warhead detonated. 


Here of course "underground command bunker was destroyed" )))

People of this house were really lucky...

... Because warhead of intercepted Kh-101 fell down directly near the building and didn't explode

Of course, Russian MoD made a statement "the strike, including Kinzhal missiles was performed on decision making centers - all targets were hit". Ok. 390 millions USD to nowhere. Rich country...

Sounds like this will only maintain the current number,, replacing lost/ damage 
 

Ref economic grind:
 
 

Heh
 
 

The Economist seems to think Russia only has a about a years worth of barrels left, and new production isn't even making a dent.

Serhiy Sternenko issued this video as first example of autonomous aiming and announced 50 millions UAH fundrising for these drones. For this day a half of money already was donated.

Yay