3D Printed Explosive Rocket Testing | Feat D&S Creations

3D printing ordnance is nothing new here at Ordnance Lab. We made 3D printed claymores a while back which were a big success. D&S Creations helped us achieve a new level of 3D printed when they reached out to us with their rocket project. They had some prototypes that were really impressive, and needed us to help them get to them to go boom. That's sort of our thing so how could we refuse?

Steve returned to the ranch to test out both shape charges, featured in our last video, and 3D printed rocket improvements. These are all prototypes he made over the course of several months and the idea to test them for functionality. Also to see if a 3D printed explosive shaped charge concept is feasible with this design. These are very much in the early stages of development so we were not expecting magic to happen. How well did they work out? Well, you will needed to watch the video to find out!

Music
TeknoAXE - Revenge of the Atari Overlords
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Track: Faraway — Lucjo [Audio Library Release]

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Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
02:47 – Sean’s Rant About Legalities And Other Topics
04:18 – Wire Guided Rocket Test
05:27 – Inert Rocket Testing
07:01 – Live Rocket Testing
09:50 – Final Thoughts

[OrdnanceLab]

This video took forever to make and edit. The weather was just awful for almost the entire week. The rain turned the range into a giant mud pit. Walking anywhere would cake your shoes into giant mud clogs. The cold did not help either.

Fortunately, Steve and Jake maintained solid motivation to get the rockets made and videos filmed. Steve is hard at work with the mk 3 variant of the rockets now that fresh data on what works and what does not is collected from our testing.

[blackbeardgamer]

I know the feeling. I am an 07/02 SOT and anytime I talk or show my machine guns I made I get people telling me they are gonna report me to the feds. Go for it lmao. I pay them every year to have a piece of paper. Great video!

[jholotanbest]

Good to see that the technology is advancing.

[twistedyogert]

I know it's illegal to try this myself so I appreciate seeing you do this.

[jlambuth]

Better late than never! This video took a while as I had a ton of videos to work through. We launched 21 rockets and ran almost 5 cameras, so it ate up a ton of space on my jump drive. Steve and I compiled a great deal of data from these tests to work on an improved rocket design. Soon, the final project will be complete and we can move onto world domination. NBD

[Mr.shorty]

Man you can see the frustration in Steve’s face don’t be too down man shits bad ass and obviously will work as intended just need a few things tweaked to get them perfect can’t wait to see the next video with 3d printed ordance and d&s creations

[ajhubbell]

Gotta love an ordinance video that hat starts with “uh oh”.

[j.robertsergertson]

This was GREAT!🤣🤣🤣 especially the rocket that ejected out the back of the launch tube, then ignited and streaked down range 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[philllax]

The bloopers are way more fun to watch than success

[AtnH]

That dog is clearly the highlight of the video and is enjoying the best scratches known to dogkind.

[Jake-mgrk]

Lol you guys are your worst enemy. Setting up for failure every rocket video lol. Love ya

[theKashConnoisseur]

The Z on the tank is a nice touch lol. And no worries about being judged on success, if rocket surgery was easy everyone would do it right?

[jbunceiii]

I laughed so hard when the rocket came out of the back of the launcher...then took off !!

[rofljohn]

Clearly, the next improvement in tank technology should be hovertanks so the rockets just scoot right under them! :D Appreciate the video kind sirs, will be calling off Europol this time.

[hidude]

The "undesireable flight path" from the second to last shot on the durable target was actually quite clean - Very little spiraling, looked as if all the fins had deployed properly on the way out, and it had a smooth loft, just so much it went over the intended target. Has D&S tried running these through a software like OpenFOAM to test aerodynamic stability? It could lend some handy clues and reduce the number of physical iterations required to get repeatable results.

[AsianTrix]

Ord Lab: launches rocket
Also Ord Lab 3 sec later: uh oh!

[IIIAnchani]

rockets, explosives and cute doggos. Instant like! :D

[davepeters]

Wile E Coyote vs. enemy tank. 😅 Every failure in testing can save thousands of failures in the field. Great video - blowing up tanks ain't easy!

[RustyShackleford]

You guys should talk to that dude building the M202 Flash, his rockets fly like arrows.

[I_am_ENSanity]

That "Uh oh...." almost had my spit out my coffee cause I was laughing so hard.