[DarkSighted]

Buy chinese products, of any kind and any price point, at your peril. In this case, low material quality (and knock-off) war gear sold to anyone willing to risk it and incapable of producing their own, a la how they sell turn-key DeepSeek kits to other countries but with less secure/robust code (and of course, hidden back doors for the PLA).

[William May]

Originally Posted by DarkSighted ↗

Buy chinese products, of any kind and any price point, at your peril. In this case, low material quality (and knock-off) war gear sold to anyone willing to risk it and incapable of producing their own, a la how they sell turn-key DeepSeek kits to other countries but with less secure/robust code (and of course, hidden back doors for the PLA).

Are you saying that the PLA likes to go in the back door?

[CatBatMan]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I blew up and magnified the data plate on that rocket launcher. It CLEARLY says "ACME Coyote Rocket Launcher and Floating Anvil Company, Hollywood, California".

That's definitely got a lot of collector value!

[CatBatMan]

Originally Posted by DarkSighted ↗

Buy chinese products, of any kind and any price point, at your peril. In this case, low material quality (and knock-off) war gear sold to anyone willing to risk it and incapable of producing their own, a la how they sell turn-key DeepSeek kits to other countries but with less secure/robust code (and of course, hidden back doors for the PLA).

PLA? What does this gave to do with 3D printing?

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by CatBatMan ↗

PLA? What does this gave to do with 3D printing?

PLA is Polylactic Acid, a common biodegradable plastic used in 3D printing.

[DarkSighted]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

Are you saying that the PLA likes to go in the back door?

Well, SOMEbody should say it. Also, I've always thought that the PLA (People's Liberation Army) was kind of spectactularly ironically misnamed, if not at the time of its inception then certainly now in the modern big picture.

[akham]

Originally Posted by DarkSighted ↗

Buy chinese products, of any kind and any price point, at your peril.

Including Chinese "reusable" space rockets. Here is an example where one suffered from premature evacuation ...

China rocket crashes after 'accidental' launch

A space rocket owned by a private Chinese company accidentally launched itself during a test on Sunday, before crash landing into a hillside.

Footage on social media shows the Tianlong-3 rocket falling back to Earth and exploding on the hill in central China’s Henan province.

The company responsible for the rocket, Tianbing Technology said in a statement that there was a "structural failure at the connection between the rocket body and the test bench", causing the rocket to take off.

The onboard computer automatically shut down, the statement said, and the rocket "fell into a deep mountain 1.5km southwest of the test bench".

It added that there were no casualties from the incident as people in the area had been evacuated.

The Tianlong-3 is Chinese designed and manufactured and was intended to be a reusable rocket.

Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow contributed to this reporting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c897xl1r7v9o

[akham]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

Are you saying that the PLA likes to go in the back door?

Warm it up a bit and it will go anywhere you want. But, for safety reasons, I wouldn't try that.

[CatBatMan]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

PLA is Polylactic Acid, a common biodegradable plastic used in 3D printing.

Yes, PLA is made with

[Bletch]

Just like any Temu/Wish product, absolute garbage.