About 3D-printed weapons

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The United States Of America has legalized the 3D-printed weapons. Manufacturing the 3D-printed weapons is quite expensive, and there is needed 3D-printer, what can produce steel parts. That thing is a modified MIG-welding machine, and it's quite expensive. Also, the system needs the CAD-models of every single part of the gun, and then the system must be sharp enough, that the parts would be fitted together. This is why normal people must not be worried about this technology, and that kind of systems are actually so expensive, that lone gunmaker would not have change or willing to pay the prize about that machine.


When we are thinking about the tests, where the guns are made by using 3D-printers, the parts of the weapon have been scanned by using laser scanners for taking precise right form and dimensions of every part of that weapon. So this is the very expensive project, and that's why would be easier to produce illegal weapons by using conventional methods. That's why those weapons, what are made by using 3D-printers  are not very common in the hands of hobbyists and other persons.


But those expensive manufacturing tools can be bought by the actors like drug cartels and Mafia, but those organizations have their channels, where they can get weapons. And also some motorcycle clubs may have the interest to buy the 3D-printing system, what can manufacture weapons. As you see, manufacturing the machine parts is not so easy, as people normally believe. The dimensions and form of the part must be made exactly right, or the gun or another machine would not work. Of course is possible that somebody would draw the gun parts by using CAD-programs or scans them to the net by using laser-scanners.


And there is an application for the mobile telephone, what can be used for that thing, but the scanning must happen in the right way, and the telephone should not shake during the process. Of course, there is need the model, what can be used for that action. This is the question of the 3D-printed weapons. If somebody would want this stuff, that person would get it, but that would need highly professionalism to make working weapons or other machines. But there are organizations, what are willing to pay for those skills.

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Why we afraid artificial intelligence and new killer-drones?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is a writing about the paradoxes of war and militarism. The militarism and war are things, what is strictly out from normal people head, and there are many things, why is not very tolerated to speak about the military systems. One of them is that the national security is limiting the comments about those things. And when we are looking very sharply to the militarism and army, we are seeing that our religion has been against violence in 2000 years, and we still fight together by using weapons.


And even if we are against violence, many people are getting their salary from military forces their equipment, and the weapons industry around them. War is good business for the weapon dealers, who offers more and more lethal and advanced weapons, what suits for many missions. Also, support equipment like GPS systems is a very good article, because the owner of those satellites can cut the location signals of those weapons, and that's why they cannot use against the deliverer of GPS-system, and that ties the clients more effectively to the influence of another actor in the field of international politics and strategies. Strategies have always depended on the politics, and that's why the political support for weapon trade is extremely important.

We must say that using killer-drones would create the military, where doesn't serve a single man. But here we must know, that if there would be autonomous killer robots, what replaces the places of the military personnel, we would come to the situation, that there would be no work for the men, who serve in those military forces. And one of the first group. what would be lost their jobs, are the fighter pilots, who serve in the war against terrorism. Those missions can be done by using drones, what just fly to the target, and then drop their weapons.


The human's advantage in comparing with robots is that human would make surprising movements for those aircraft. And that's why human pilots still win the drones, and this is the thing, what keeps those pilots in the cockpits. When we are thinking that the use of missiles and drones is somehow cowardly action, we must say, that the leaders of the terrorist organizations and military forces would not be in any danger in those operations. If some Tornado or Sukhoi-pilot would drop the bombs from the high altitude like 10 000 meters, there would not have the single missile, what could harm that aircraft, if the opponent is some kind of Isis-terrorist.


The smart bombs, what have satellite guidance are extremely sharp, and in those operations, they could destroy targets very effectively.  The civilians are not suitable to comment those things, because that would be harmful to the reputation of military forces. If those pilots would be replaced with the artificial intelligence, there would not be heroes in another side, what is, of course, our side. But when we are going to speak about the fighters, we could act like some children at the sandbox, who are asking each other, whose car is the best?


In this case, when we are talking about multipurpose-fighter contracts, we can ask the question, what is the best, 4th,5th or 6th. generation fighter or multirole aircraft? And in this case, people have the right to talk, which one is the best, Super-Hornet, Gripen or SU-27? And if the writings have no influence or expertise, why those people would not have right to write about those things? Of course, somebody says, that I'm writing this for revenge because I didn't have promotion in the 100th. anniversary of the  Finnish defense forces, and that's why I' writing about this thing.  But people have right to their opinions.

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