🇺🇦The history of the 3rd Printing Platoon🇺🇦

In the following, you will get a deeper inside view how we built up this great project.

🔻 With growing trust, we also managed to win the trust of an entire brigade. We received new model data and manufactured them on order. As you can see in the video, the commander was extremely satisfied and very happy with this initiative.

🔻 We were asked extremely often why we manufacture in Germany and not in Ukraine. Do you remember that Russia attacked the civilian power supply? Electricity was therefore rationed and many residents of Ukraine only had electricity for 8 hours a day.

🔻 3D printers sometimes require a lot of power and do not work well with an unstable power supply. If there are power fluctuations during production, the printer would stop and everything that was being printed would be ruined. That is why we still manufacture in Germany, where the power supply is stable and no power outages are to be feared.

🔻 Did you know that back then we only had a third of today's capacity? At that time, the monthly target was €1,000 and printing was not yet as efficient. Back then, we could print 500 stabilisers per month. Based on today's capacity and optimisations, that would have been more than 2,000.

The original posting is linked here

If you want to support our project, the PayPal donation page is linked below:

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🚨This is what we do! 🤫

Do you know what the 3rd Printing Platoon is actually doing except asking for donations? Well, the video above explains you what we will do with your money which you can donate via 📱 here.

ℹ️ Where do we come from?
Initially we came from the 155mm NATO Channel. This is where we started back in May 2024 and we are very thankful for the support we got as we started this project. The initial posting can be found here. You can still search the channel for „xyz“ to get all the information you need.

ℹ️ Why do we have a separate channel now?
We are trying to give you all the needed information in one spot without searching the channel separately. From our point of view, getting all information just by scrolling is better than using the search.

ℹ️ What do you print?
As you already know, we are printing equipment for the military. In this case, it is a so called „bottle“ with a total weight of 300g. However, we also print bigger ones with 500g in total. These bottles will be dropped over the heads of the invaders to stop them from advancing.
Additional to these bottles, we also print parts for the factory itself. They use the parts to build even bigger bottles. The biggest one ever build in this factory is 5000g in total and needs about 10 different parts mounted together.

ℹ️ How many can you produce?
Our goal is to print at least 1000 pieces of the small bottles per month. Or 500 of the bigger brother. The Ukrainians can print ~9units/day which is 270/month. If we run our factory at full capacity, we would be able to print up to 3500 / month. However, this is currently not possible with the income of donations we have. The average is at 1300 / month. It all depends on how much money flows in.

ℹ️ how many drops needed for one Invader?
As you know from the video, a small drone can carry 2 of those. A bigger drone is able to carry 4. For one kill you need about 4 drops and sometimes a 5th to be sure. (Sometimes Russians play dead and aren’t in reality)

ℹ️ What do you get for your money?
With your money, you finance the military directly. To put it bluntly, you are donating money so that, in the end, a Russian invader will no longer be able to move and will remain lying by the wayside.

ℹ️ What will be done with the money?
With the donated money, we buy the material itself, cover the maintenance as well as energy, transportation and logistics and also administrative costs to keep everything running. This leads to the total average costs of ~3€ for the small one and the bigger one is about 5€ each. Stabilisers are about the same range each.

❗️No one in the chain benefits from your donation, except the Ukrainian military!❗️

ℹ️ How much do I have to spend to get at least one stopped forever?
In general you can say that you need 3-4 drops per Russian. This highly depends on the current conditions and a bit of luck. Generally speaking you can stop one invader with a donation of ~20€. Spending 100€ leads to about 5 dead invaders.

ℹ️ Is this cheap or expensive?
Let’s compare the options:
One 155mm shell costs about 2500€ per shot.
An suicide FPV drone with an explosive attached costs about 1000€ and will hit 1 person.
You can decide by yourself if spending 100€ for 5 is cheap or not 😉


✏️ If you have any questions, leave a comment below.

👍 If you are convinced, then please use the link to our PayPal donation page down below:

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Let’s 🛑 together! Slava 🇺🇦