Comment on U.S. Air Force Airman Develops 3D-Printed Insert to Solve Perennial 20 mm Ammunition Jams While Loading

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s all fun and games until quality assurance finds out you’re using an unauthorized and unaccounted for tool on a fighter flightline

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  • anime_ted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Air Force has a program to support just this kind of innovation. If they allowed a media outlet to come in and do a story you can bet this had been approved all the way up the chain. This dude probably just earned some official reward bucks, too

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    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Should have had his wife “design and print” them, get a patent, and sell them to the air force instead.

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      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This guy defense contracts.

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      • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        $3,999 per insert for probably $0.75 of filament. Any less is an insult to the MIC

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      • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Facts

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    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yep! It’s nice to see people encouraged to do in house innovation. The military can have a ton of red tape and people that would rather have you embrace the suck than reduce the suck. Imagine the BMV running everything and you get the idea lol

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      • anime_ted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I see your point

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