A Kid Just 3D-Printed A $97 MANPAD Rocket Launcher

 A viral video circulating on X appears to show a young developer unveiling a 3D-printed proof-of-concept prototype of a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile system, or MANPADS, built for less than $100.

According to the project page on GitHub, the five-minute video showcases a "proof-of-concept prototype of a low-cost rocket launcher and guided rocket system built using consumer electronics and 3D-printed components."

The project description says the system uses an onboard flight computer, inertial measurement hardware, and a sensor stack that includes GPS, compass, and barometric modules to determine orientation and transmit telemetry.

At the end of the video, the developer says the prototype was only made possible because "modern tools, additive manufacturing, consumer electronics, and rapid prototyping have shattered the old barriers that once confined advanced hardware to well-funded laboratories."

someone built a $96 3D-PRINTED MANPADS rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor and piano wire

its called Project Canard

it integrates with distributed camera nodes to triangulate airborne targets and update flight paths in real-time

it proves the… pic.twitter.com/WPz6ffUQzr

— chiefofautism (@chiefofautism) March 15, 2026

He added, "This prototype explores what happens when these tools are pushed into defense, creating systems that are powerful, modular, and scalable in ways that were once impossible." 

The big takeaway is that 3D printing and consumer electronics are turning weapons into scalable hardware. Together, they are making warfare cheaper, faster, more decentralized, and more accessible to civilians. This technology has already appeared on modern battlefields, from FPV drones in Ukraine equipped with shaped charges to low-cost Iranian drones. 

Warfare has been permanently changed, as the hyper-development seen over the last four years in Ukraine and elsewhere has pulled 2030s-era war technology into the present.

Perhaps the kid has a future in working for some 'war unicorn' that produces low-cost war tech. That's certainly what the Department of War is searching for. He created a prototype MANPADS for $97. The Army currently pays $400,000 per unit.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/kid-just-3d-printed-manpad-97

Houthis join Iran war by claiming strike on Israel

 

Houthis' spokesperson Yahya Saree (pictured) announced on Saturday that the Yemeni militant group launched their first strikes on Israel since the beginning of the conflict in Iran.

Saree stated that the attack was carried out using a barrage of ballistic missiles and that it targeted Israel's "sensitive" military sites. He claimed that the Houthis decided to join the war due to the attacks on Iran's infrastructure and the killing of civilians in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine, adding that the group's military operation "will continue until the declared objectives are achieved ... and until the aggression against all resistance fronts cease."

The Iran-backed group previously stated that it would join the fight if the war in Iran escalates and if any alliance joins the United States and Israel in their war against Iran

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Houthis-join-Iran-war-by-claiming-strike-on-Israel/65971593

Drones damage radar systems at Kuwait airport

 The Kuwait International Airport came under attack by multiple drones on Saturday, which caused "significant" damage to the airport's radar systems, the state-owned outlet Kuwait News Agency reported, citing the country's Civil Aviation Authority.

According to the report, the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that there were no injuries following the drone attacks, despite the damage to the critical infrastructure.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Drones-damage-radar-systems-at-Kuwait-airport/65971610

Israel kills two senior Hezbollah officials in Beirut

 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Saturday that it killed two senior Hezbollah operatives during their latest attacks on Hezbollah sites in Beirut.

"The IDF attacked yesterday (Friday) in Beirut and killed Ayoub Hussein Yacoub, a senior member of the Hezbollah terror organization's communications unit. In the past, as a senior member of the missile unit, he was a central factor in directing fire and took part in directing the firing and launches towards the State of Israel throughout Operation 'Northern Arrows'," the IDF stated. "In addition, Yasser Muhammad Mubarak, another senior member of the communications unit who was also on duty in Hezbollah's missile unit, was killed," the military added.

The IDF also said that its forces hit dozens of sites across southern Lebanon, targeting weapons depots, launchers, military structures, and other infrastructure.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Israel-kills-two-senior-Hezbollah-officials-in-Beirut/65971643

Iran to 'strongly' retaliate for attacks on infrastructure

 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) warned on Saturday that his country will retaliate "strongly" for any attacks on its infrastructure.

"We have said many times that Iran doesn't carry out preemptive attacks, but we will retaliate strongly if our infrastructure or economic centers are targeted," Pezeshkian said in a post on X.

The Iranian president also cautioned the countries in the Middle East region that if they want development and security, they should not let "our enemies run the war from your lands."

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-to-'strongly'-retaliate-for-attacks-on-infrastructure/65971657

Iran targets US vessel off Oman's coast

 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Saturday that it targeted a military support vessel belonging to the United States at a "considerable" distance from the port of Salalah in Oman, according to Iran's semi-official news outlet Tasnim News.

Earlier today, Oman's official Oman News Agency reported that the port was struck by two drones, which injured one foreign worker and damaged one crane.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Khatam-al-Anbiya central headquarters, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, also revealed that the IRGC launched missiles and precision-guided drones at two US "hideouts" in Dubai, where over 500 American soldiers were located.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-targets-US-vessel-off-Oman's-coast/65971684

Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic

 US President Donald Trump has named 13 people to his panel of science advisers — and all but one is a leading technology executive. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) now includes a single university researcher and at least nine billionaires.

Among the new members are Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, the parent company of Facebook; Larry Ellison, the executive chairman of software giant Oracle; and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. There are also chief executives of tech hardware companies — Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Lisa Su of Advanced Microdevices and Michael Dell of Dell Technologies. The corporate chiefs have a combined wealth in excess of US$900 billion.

Three of the chief executives have earned PhDs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Su’s degree is in electrical engineering. Jacob DeWitte and Bob Mumgaard, who both head nuclear-energy start-up firms, have degrees in nuclear engineering and applied plasma physics, respectively.\

The sole academic researcher is John Martinis, a quantum physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for observations of macroscopic quantum phenomena. “I am honoured to be on the committee,” Martinis told Nature.

Laura Greene, a physicist at Florida State University in Tallahassee and a member of PCAST during the administration of president Joseph Biden, praised Martinis and Su as being “outstanding, both in science and technology”.

But others are critical of the committee’s make-up. “Not a single biologist and only one university researcher on PCAST,” Vaughan Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, said in a post on Bluesky. “This leaves the country unbelievably ill prepared for an age of biotechnology, a race we are already beginning to lose.”

The balance could yet change: under the terms of a presidential order Trump issued in 2025, he could name as many as 11 more members to the committee, says Kenny Evans at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who is a specialist in science policy and co-founder of the White House Scientists Archive.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00977-z