The Chinese military has started to use 3D printing drones.

"China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is testing a system aided by 3D printing and drone deliveries to help the forces repair their equipment in remote locations or during wartime. The PLA is potentially testing this capability."(Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

"According to the reports, the testing was carried out by a brigade belonging to the PLA’s Northern Theatre Command Air Force." (Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

This comes just months after the United States Army tried to get this capability and demonstrate it on the front lines.

The 3D printing drones are tools that can make repairings for damaged tools. Those systems can theoretically form any physical form. The drones require only drawings that they should follow. They can make even ships and large-scale structures. 

The 3D printing technology. Along with AI and remote control printers. 

The remote-printing tools can give civil and military users new types of flexibility. The smaller 3D printing system can be mounted in the truck.

And it can create things like drones if it has the microchips for those systems. The high-temperature system can use carbage metals or plastic carbage for the spare parts of the damaged drones. 

The system can create propellers and other parts by using waste. The system melts the waste and then transforms it into the wire, that the 3D system uses. And then. Those systems can create anything that the military needs. The system can melt metals using lasers or some microwave systems, and those tools can be more effective than nobody realizes. 

The air bubbles in the system make those machine parts and other types of 3D-printed items weak. The vacuum workspace and other kinds of things that deny the gas impact on the machine parts remove those bubbles. 

(SCMP.com/ China’s military tests remote 3D printed parts and drone delivery for battlefield: report)

(Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

The system can use lasers and high-power 3D X- or gamma-ray scanners to search the material errors. The centrifugal sling can separate those raw materials. And the shape of those AI-controlled highly advanced factories can be like a group of containers. Those 3D printing factories can be the systems that emulate living cells and form anything that the users want. 

And spectroscopes to remove artifacts from the raw materials. That allows those systems to create things like guns and other things. Like jet engine spare parts on the battlefield. The 3D printer requires the drawings and material lists from the central computers. 

If there are suitable melting systems and drones those kinds of systems can collect needed materials from their environment. And then. That 3D printing system can create needed things by following orders that the system operators give. This kind of manufacturing system is the most advanced in the world. 

The flexibility is the reason why those systems are planned to be used in space programs. Space drones, or highly maneuverable systems can fix damaged satellites and space stations. 

The space drone is the system there propellers of the regular drones are replaced with rocket engines. Or there can be the rocket. There is a platform that can aim the rocket jet to the sides of the chamber. And when the system inclines that platform it can turn the rocket jet in the wanted direction. That kind of rocket can give orbital drones very accurate movement. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-pla-3d-printing-drone

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3292338/chinas-military-tests-remote-3d-printed-parts-and-drone-delivery-battlefield-report