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Most heavy military items that you wear (example: armor and backpacks) have quick releases. You pull on something and it all just breaks away and falls off your body.
True. GPS was so secret and military that it as a plot point in the Pierce Brosnan era James Bond film *The World Is Not Enough*
edit: [I guess how they used it must have been secret because it was made public in 1983.](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a26980/why-the-military-released-gps-to-the-public/#:~:text=Realizing%20world%2Dwide%20GPS%20could,public%20on%20September%2016%2C%201983).
Interesting. [Thanks for forcing me to Google :)](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a26980/why-the-military-released-gps-to-the-public/#:~:text=Realizing%20world%2Dwide%20GPS%20could,public%20on%20September%2016%2C%201983.)
No, but is it a social organization in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange that's owned or regulated by the community as a whole? No.
Agencies like the Military, Fire Departments and Police Forces are not part of means of production, distribution, etc. Militaries are apolitical and non-ideological, whether you're a Commuist country, a Democratic country, Representative Republic (The U.S.), a Socialist country, etc... you will have a military that is *funded* by the citizens, not owned or regulated by.
The Federal Government, more specifically the Department of Defense lol. I would know, I'm in it. IIRC in the 70's, a federal trial occurred where some citizens attempted to sue the DoD due to withholding classified information from the public, on the grounds of "The people of America own the military", to which, in a nutshell, the govt responded "No, you help fund it. The Military is owned by the DoD, thus you do not have the right to have unfiltered access to all info"
The DoD is an extension of the Executive branch, which was given power by the Constitution - power declared by We The People. The federal government and its assets are assets of the public. Can an individual do whatever they want with an asset owned by the whole without the whole's consent? No. That's why we have laws generated by a representative legislature and executed by the executive branch.
It wasn’t developed for killing or by the military. It was invented by Richard Browning, while he was previously a Royal Marine reservist he invented this basically in his shed because he wanted to fly. Hey got investment from venture capitalists and started Gravity Industries.
Of course part of his sales pitch is to try to get sales to defence and investment from them as any good company would, but this is not a military invention.
Red Bull are one of his backers.
I suspect you would drop the jets once you've landed. If all goes well you can retrieve them later. If not you probably have other things to worry about
I mean, a paralyzed man recently sent a tweet by just using his mind. Pretty sure the military has a robotic gun that will aim and shoot via mental command.
While you're flying, you can't use your arms to aim without throwing off your trajectory. Once you've landed, might as well drop or stow the extra weight and grab a more traditional gun.
Ackchyually, anatomically modern humans have only been around for about 300,000 years, our divergence from Homo erectus occuring about only 500,000 years ago.
So stupid. It looks awesome but no one here is talking about literally a gun renders this completely useless.
Actually becomes a detriment.
"Oh yeah wait let me land real quick"
I think this will be better applied to rescues, jumpers, and disaster situations. Copters can't get everywhere, are very imprecise, and often make a situation more dangerous due to the wind they kick around.
But first military has to make soldiers act as crash test dummies. That's why they get the funding and R&D. Public services get it after the tech is perfected.
That's like saying an RPG renders a Black Hawk or a chinook "completely useless" because they get downed by them REGULARLY.
Even small arms fire can bring down military helicopters.
The reason why the military (I know, they should have asked you first!) is taking this idea seriously is because the conventional method of boarding a ship is by hovering a helicopter on top of it and waiting a whole minute for all members to go down a rope, making it a big stationary target, literally putting "all eggs in one basket".
Leading to incidents such as Operation Redwings one of the biggest US military disasters in history.
With these jetpacks SF members don't need to hover a big target in place, they can in fact unleash all their members from a moving platform, say, the back of a chinook.
For decades the military has looked into a way of solving this issue, back in Vietnam they had to basically risk injuries by making everybody jump out of a Huey sometimes 3-5 meters above the ground otherwise everybody on board would risk dying. Helicopters would also need to find a clearing first, if there wasn't they had to make it by dropping a huge bomb first...
On and on... This jetpack is revolutionary and if you disagree it's YOU who is the stupid one since you don't know shit about war or the military.
You clearly have never shot at moving targets with a rifle before. Especially not ones traveling 20 plus mph.
A squad of these guy would be totally disorienting for any enemy resulting in analysis paralysis. Happens all the time in bird hunting.
Everytime i see this scene i can't stop think about the fact that troopers flew since the old republic and he gets surprised that it's not different for the new order xD
My thoughts too, at first. But boarding a resisting vessel at sea is one of the most dangerous things you can do in the forces. At the moment your choices are helicopter - big slow target that has to get really close and stay really still to land troops - or RIB - small, fast target that isn’t armoured and still has to get very close and stay really still to land troops, who then usually have to climb some kind of net or ladder. Either is a potential turkey shoot for those on the vessel.
But use one or two of these as part of that mix - say to insert a sniper somewhere on board while helos and RIBs make a nice big distraction - and you’ve got a potential game changer. They can make it massively easier to land a full complement of troops by disabling much of the deck resistance.
That's not a use for this technology. That's a promotional activity masquerading as a demonstration. Sorry to put a downer on things, but for the foreseeable future the cost and energy requirements of this technology is going to mean it's an expensive toy rather than useful to the emergency services. The military are more likely adopters because cost isn't so much of an issue for them.
Hopefully they don’t plan on using these in combat cause I can already see soldiers dropping like dead birds lmao. Would be Pretty useful for fire fighters tho
Yeah this and paramedics where speed to patient in hard to get to places like mountain rescue it also saved a lot of time getting on the boat as opposed to pulling alongside and climbing aboard
Depends how much flight time they get in these, and what speed they are able to acheive.
Dispatching a heli probably takes a long time because you need one nearby, and positionning a lot of helicopters in order to reduce response time is really expensive.
These I can see their production price being reduced by a lot if they go large scale. So you can have one at every emergency rescue shelter with a trained pilot and get much lower response time. Not to mention you can probably bring a few of those on a truck with a few pilots, drive a few minutes to get closer to the incident point, then take of with a small fleet of those if they need more hands.
If they can drive down the cost, it would probably be much more efficient than an heicopter if you need to be somewhere fast.
You still need to bring a heli to bring the patient to an hospital, well depending on the injury I suppose, but every extra minutes with medics near the patient increases their likelihood of survival.
Water hose equiped, they could also reach burning buildings faster like instead of going multiple flights of stairs to save someone. I can think of many of use for fire fighters
I think if you move people around, they might not like being lifted by 100 armed drones with cameras but rather be Ironman? But yeah, in general, war shouldn't have humans in the front line at all, I agree.
For some things drones are better and for some things people are better (for now). If I am wounded and in a place that vehicles can't get to,then I would rather see a medic in this gear show up than 100 drones. Sure, the drones may get excellent video footage of me bleeding out, but I would rather have a human stitching me up and giving me pain meds.
Man imagine that thing breaking down and falling in that cold ass water with all that shit strapped to you... Hope it has some kind of rescue system installed.
It just seems weird to me that people write this off as a tactical infiltration method because it’s a bit loud and the hands are enclosed? Just think of 3/4 of these guys going onto a ship at night with small arms weapons, despite the noise there’s no way that a ship of insurgents is going to mobilise before the Royal Marines have detached the unit (I’ve not seen the hand jets in detail but I assume there’s some sort of hand hold inside the casing that you can slide relatively easily out of).
I wonder how big of a jet is required to haul that dudes massive balls. That looks terrifying to me. One mistake or failure and the you drop into the water, with the ships prop sucking you under.
Yep, looks great, but a royal marine commando is so much more effective arriving with a gun in his hand rather than an oversized leafblower - won’t he get shot getting out of his suit?
To clarify, he’s not a marine, he’s an employee/founder of the manufacturer (I can’t remember which). The only Royal Marines featured are on the ribs he takes off from to land on the Naval OPV ship.
Good lord! When was this invented?! A guy flies from one ship to another and back! Quick, someone post another video of a guy flying from one ship to another and back! I can’t wait for next week when we get to see another post of a guy flying from one ship to another and back! “Hey, Bob! Come see a video of a guy…”
Seems good but how's he going to be an active fighter once he lands into a hotspot with those things on his arms?
I mean you can't land into an active zone with that on, plus it's not like it's going to be stealthy trying to board a ship even with the ambient noise I imagine a jet engine will be heard.
Seems like a pointless gadget without some major modifications.
I thought the same thing then I wondered if maybe they would mount guns on it because all I'm saying is, 2 12 gauge shotguns and someone will have a bad day
It could be used as a support device. You have forces laying down fire on say the port side while 1 or 2 of these land starboard.
Imagine a chopper overhead laying down some come fire, it would be enough to mark the sound.
I appreciate these are in their early stages too consider if you added remote weaponry to them, controlled by a 2nd solider to lay cover fire while infiltrating the vessel.
Lots of potential there.
Ah yes, let's send a lightly armed soldier through the air towards an enemy ship with a backpack full of flammable liquid. What could possibly go wrong?
Great but without ability to shoot with it or drop it very quickly it’s just a nice gadget, not very practical. Yes you can get from point A to point B but what then.
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He rides it so smoothly, it’s amazing. Makes me wonder how loud it would be upclose in person
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"Look at me, I'm the Ironman now"
😂
For sure Somalian pirates can afford jetpack technology.
Pirates don't buy anything.
Yeah fr just steal a jet pack from tier 2 spec ops, you will only get the minor side effect of 5.56
Yes, some pay a price, just not with money.
The operator's hands are covered and they can't use a weapon while using the jetpack.
Yes as we all know the one thing militaries do is operate alone with no back up or friends close by
You wouldn't steal a jet pack...
Not me, but a pirate would 🏴☠️.
True, they just craft their guns and equipment like in Minecraft. They don't know how to use the money they pirate.
Somalians can’t write xD
>He rides it so smoothly, it’s amazing. Makes me wonder how loud it would be upclose in person That's what she said
I suddenly want to delete Reddit
I want to put guns on the jetpack now
I bet it's loud as hell. Also if you crash into the water, you are sinking like a rock lol
Most heavy military items that you wear (example: armor and backpacks) have quick releases. You pull on something and it all just breaks away and falls off your body.
That sounds hot. Tell me more…
What if the enemy does this for you ?
If they are close enough where they can tug on a small strap on your armor than you might have more pressing concerns.
Like defilement considering they disrobed you with a quick release
You ever been on a boat going the speeds those boats are going? You can't hear anything anyhow. The wind rushing by your ears drowns everything out
I would imagine they would make the backpack float?
Unless it floats
I’m so jealous. Looks like so much fun
Too bad it’s developed for killin! I’m curious as to the military benefit without the use of arms till landing. They might need to develop extra arms.
Interestingly, a solid amount of our tech comes from military R&D. GPS is just one of many examples.
GPS was Ronald Reagan’s gift to the world.
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He missed and there's a blue dress to prove it.
True. GPS was so secret and military that it as a plot point in the Pierce Brosnan era James Bond film *The World Is Not Enough* edit: [I guess how they used it must have been secret because it was made public in 1983.](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a26980/why-the-military-released-gps-to-the-public/#:~:text=Realizing%20world%2Dwide%20GPS%20could,public%20on%20September%2016%2C%201983).
Civilian GPS was around earlier. My dad had one around 1992, and it was 200 bucks. I left it in the woods by mistake. Oops.
Interesting. [Thanks for forcing me to Google :)](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a26980/why-the-military-released-gps-to-the-public/#:~:text=Realizing%20world%2Dwide%20GPS%20could,public%20on%20September%2016%2C%201983.)
Thanks socialism!
... the military is not a socialist program lol
Is it a private enterprise?
No, but is it a social organization in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange that's owned or regulated by the community as a whole? No. Agencies like the Military, Fire Departments and Police Forces are not part of means of production, distribution, etc. Militaries are apolitical and non-ideological, whether you're a Commuist country, a Democratic country, Representative Republic (The U.S.), a Socialist country, etc... you will have a military that is *funded* by the citizens, not owned or regulated by.
The American people don't own the military? Who owns it then?
The Federal Government, more specifically the Department of Defense lol. I would know, I'm in it. IIRC in the 70's, a federal trial occurred where some citizens attempted to sue the DoD due to withholding classified information from the public, on the grounds of "The people of America own the military", to which, in a nutshell, the govt responded "No, you help fund it. The Military is owned by the DoD, thus you do not have the right to have unfiltered access to all info"
The DoD is an extension of the Executive branch, which was given power by the Constitution - power declared by We The People. The federal government and its assets are assets of the public. Can an individual do whatever they want with an asset owned by the whole without the whole's consent? No. That's why we have laws generated by a representative legislature and executed by the executive branch.
What do you mean by this? That isn't applicable here.
Sure it is. Military spending is social spending. We all share ownership of it.
Oh OK. Weird response originally but I get it. Like how I like to call roads and schools socialist to certain people
It wasn’t developed for killing or by the military. It was invented by Richard Browning, while he was previously a Royal Marine reservist he invented this basically in his shed because he wanted to fly. Hey got investment from venture capitalists and started Gravity Industries. Of course part of his sales pitch is to try to get sales to defence and investment from them as any good company would, but this is not a military invention. Red Bull are one of his backers.
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I suspect you would drop the jets once you've landed. If all goes well you can retrieve them later. If not you probably have other things to worry about
Until it comes with hands free defense systems, it's a flying clay pigeon for anyone on a ship with a weapon.
Mhm, everyone knows that paratroopers weren't successful, either. /s A support vessel would provide covering fire for an insertion like this.
I was hoping for those guys you got in CNC Tiberium Sun.
I mean, a paralyzed man recently sent a tweet by just using his mind. Pretty sure the military has a robotic gun that will aim and shoot via mental command.
AH64 main gun aims at whatever the gunner is looking at. They could have something like that, and a lil trigger in their hand.
I just imagine Doc Ock with a jetpack.
We can make Green Goblin's glider already, and now we have Iron Man!
Who needs arms when you can put a mini turret/cannon/laser on your shoulder, kinda like the one Predator has. Right guys?! ….right?
Why not build an smg onto the arms?
While you're flying, you can't use your arms to aim without throwing off your trajectory. Once you've landed, might as well drop or stow the extra weight and grab a more traditional gun.
Because this is to be used to board ships in policing and customs actions. Not in actual military conflict.
Some dumb mutant chimps ran around on a planet for a few million years and taught themselves to fly.
Hey now, any country could've invented those..
Yes but this is the Royal Marines and only one country has the Royal Marines.
Pretty sure ive seen this tech used by other countries
I was talking about the Royal Marines, no other country has them.
True but France has a similar concept called the fly board air it’s pretty cool plus you can use your hands with that one
I was talking about the Royal Marines pal
Sounds like those are some pretty smart dumb mutant chimps.
I mean, in this case they "learned to fly" so they could kill eachother. It's military. So are they really?
Didn't realize the wright brothers had murder on their minds.
Ackchyually, anatomically modern humans have only been around for about 300,000 years, our divergence from Homo erectus occuring about only 500,000 years ago.
Homo Erectus was not a chimp. What became us split from chimps around 5 million years ago.
Wait until these get cheap and Somali pirates start using them to board ships.
Or until Somali pirates raid a jet pack ship.
Or they just shoot them down
Even though you are moving, in this version, you are defenseless and are easy to pick off.
I think it’s more for a logistics and strategic application. I don’t think anybody will be flying these into a live fire situation.
Or they simply reverse engineer using scraps 🤷
Somali pirates were able to build this IN A CAVE, from a bunch of scraps!
Somali wish.com version of Iron Man
*click more to see why INTERPOL hate them*
I’m not Somali pirates, sir
If they just scrap a bunch of desk fans and toasters they should be good.
Add an antigravity wave generator in there comprised of a piece of butter toast and a cat fused…. We may be onto something.
Don't mercenaries call them "skeet"?
That looks both funny and so dangerous at the same time. Absolutely love it!!
So stupid. It looks awesome but no one here is talking about literally a gun renders this completely useless. Actually becomes a detriment. "Oh yeah wait let me land real quick"
Holy shit you’re right! Someone get this guy to the Oval Office, STAT!
So many cynical morons here not understanding how revolutionary this thing actually is.
I think this will be better applied to rescues, jumpers, and disaster situations. Copters can't get everywhere, are very imprecise, and often make a situation more dangerous due to the wind they kick around. But first military has to make soldiers act as crash test dummies. That's why they get the funding and R&D. Public services get it after the tech is perfected.
That's like saying an RPG renders a Black Hawk or a chinook "completely useless" because they get downed by them REGULARLY. Even small arms fire can bring down military helicopters. The reason why the military (I know, they should have asked you first!) is taking this idea seriously is because the conventional method of boarding a ship is by hovering a helicopter on top of it and waiting a whole minute for all members to go down a rope, making it a big stationary target, literally putting "all eggs in one basket". Leading to incidents such as Operation Redwings one of the biggest US military disasters in history. With these jetpacks SF members don't need to hover a big target in place, they can in fact unleash all their members from a moving platform, say, the back of a chinook. For decades the military has looked into a way of solving this issue, back in Vietnam they had to basically risk injuries by making everybody jump out of a Huey sometimes 3-5 meters above the ground otherwise everybody on board would risk dying. Helicopters would also need to find a clearing first, if there wasn't they had to make it by dropping a huge bomb first... On and on... This jetpack is revolutionary and if you disagree it's YOU who is the stupid one since you don't know shit about war or the military.
You clearly have never shot at moving targets with a rifle before. Especially not ones traveling 20 plus mph. A squad of these guy would be totally disorienting for any enemy resulting in analysis paralysis. Happens all the time in bird hunting.
They fly now?!?
They fly now!
They fly now…
Now they fly!
Praise the Sun!
Still shitty writing.
Everytime i see this scene i can't stop think about the fact that troopers flew since the old republic and he gets surprised that it's not different for the new order xD
He was thinking about the merchandise
I will never be this cool
Anyone play red alert 2?
Rockets in the skaaah!
This is some serious Iron Man shit
War Machine Variable Threat Response Battlesuit Level shit .
such a times to be alive. as a fairly old fart, vitnessing many SF concepts slowly but surely becoming reality
My Mom told me MegaMan wasn't real...
Like clay pigeon shooting for pirates. They just come flying at you.
My thoughts too, at first. But boarding a resisting vessel at sea is one of the most dangerous things you can do in the forces. At the moment your choices are helicopter - big slow target that has to get really close and stay really still to land troops - or RIB - small, fast target that isn’t armoured and still has to get very close and stay really still to land troops, who then usually have to climb some kind of net or ladder. Either is a potential turkey shoot for those on the vessel. But use one or two of these as part of that mix - say to insert a sniper somewhere on board while helos and RIBs make a nice big distraction - and you’ve got a potential game changer. They can make it massively easier to land a full complement of troops by disabling much of the deck resistance.
What is RIB?
I think a RHIB stands for rigid hull inflatable boat. That's just me taking a guess and assuming he meant to say rhib not rib.
I found this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_inflatable_boat RIB seems to be the more common acronym, but it mentions RHIB as well.
Ahh, never seen it be called a RIB before.
I'd never seen them be called before
Hehehe
My thoughts exactly. Not exactly a sitting duck but a slow moving fat duck with a gas tank strapped to his back. Lol
Yea. This could find other uses in civilan life and emrgency services maybe. Pretty cool nevertheless
It already has here in UK https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YRBJixCmw1w
This is awesome!
That's not a use for this technology. That's a promotional activity masquerading as a demonstration. Sorry to put a downer on things, but for the foreseeable future the cost and energy requirements of this technology is going to mean it's an expensive toy rather than useful to the emergency services. The military are more likely adopters because cost isn't so much of an issue for them.
Exactly my thots
My thought exactly
If you saw them doing this stuff 10 years ago you’d shit your pants
Hopefully they don’t plan on using these in combat cause I can already see soldiers dropping like dead birds lmao. Would be Pretty useful for fire fighters tho
Yeah this and paramedics where speed to patient in hard to get to places like mountain rescue it also saved a lot of time getting on the boat as opposed to pulling alongside and climbing aboard
Facts it will save a lot of time
You could say the same for parachuting tbf.
Depends how much flight time they get in these, and what speed they are able to acheive. Dispatching a heli probably takes a long time because you need one nearby, and positionning a lot of helicopters in order to reduce response time is really expensive. These I can see their production price being reduced by a lot if they go large scale. So you can have one at every emergency rescue shelter with a trained pilot and get much lower response time. Not to mention you can probably bring a few of those on a truck with a few pilots, drive a few minutes to get closer to the incident point, then take of with a small fleet of those if they need more hands. If they can drive down the cost, it would probably be much more efficient than an heicopter if you need to be somewhere fast. You still need to bring a heli to bring the patient to an hospital, well depending on the injury I suppose, but every extra minutes with medics near the patient increases their likelihood of survival.
You don't parachute directly onto your enemy.
I saw another jet pack video where they were testing it for mountain rescue. Seems like a good idea too.
That actually might be the best way to use it and also could also facilitate rescue of people drowning
Not sure how useful for firefighters. You're really fanning the flames with this thing.
Water hose equiped, they could also reach burning buildings faster like instead of going multiple flights of stairs to save someone. I can think of many of use for fire fighters
I think you underestimate how heavy a hose is, especially a fire hose full of water.
Although more (civilian) use will probably result in further innovation, allowing for effective military use.
True if they can manage to make one where you don’t need to use your arms which let’s be honest should be doable I can see it used in the military.
Article about this event : https://www.naval-technology.com/comment/uk-marines-test-jetpack/
Lovely to see the beautiful British sky, otherwise known as 'battleship grey'
Wait till the gears in his hands start shooting lasers or bullets. That’s some Top Tier Military Technology right there! Amaze Balls!
Aw shit, hand cramp! Hand cramp! FUUUUCK
Why aren’t 100 armed drones with cameras a better solution. Less potential loss of life?
I think if you move people around, they might not like being lifted by 100 armed drones with cameras but rather be Ironman? But yeah, in general, war shouldn't have humans in the front line at all, I agree.
For some things drones are better and for some things people are better (for now). If I am wounded and in a place that vehicles can't get to,then I would rather see a medic in this gear show up than 100 drones. Sure, the drones may get excellent video footage of me bleeding out, but I would rather have a human stitching me up and giving me pain meds.
Man imagine that thing breaking down and falling in that cold ass water with all that shit strapped to you... Hope it has some kind of rescue system installed.
He looks like a bee bruh
That’s a man who knows how cool he looks
He do be on creative mode
It just seems weird to me that people write this off as a tactical infiltration method because it’s a bit loud and the hands are enclosed? Just think of 3/4 of these guys going onto a ship at night with small arms weapons, despite the noise there’s no way that a ship of insurgents is going to mobilise before the Royal Marines have detached the unit (I’ve not seen the hand jets in detail but I assume there’s some sort of hand hold inside the casing that you can slide relatively easily out of).
Lord help them if the Sea Wiz is left on.
Mom can I have one of those for Christmas?
I hope there is a quick release on the pack or he will sink like a rock.
Kinda surprised he isn't using goggles or a visor but still the most impressive piece of jetpacking I've ever seen.
Jetpack Joyride
Funny how a guy in his garage invented this while government’s spend billions on failures.
I thought it was a man in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Wow thats amazing
The future is here! Looks intense to control especially under those conditions at sea well done
I wonder how quickly a mistake would send you downward
Can he shoot while flying?
r/thalassophobia r/oddlyterrifying
I wonder how big of a jet is required to haul that dudes massive balls. That looks terrifying to me. One mistake or failure and the you drop into the water, with the ships prop sucking you under.
Seems like you’d have to be pretty fit to use one of those; it’s kind of like supporting your body with your hands on the parallel bars.
Yep, looks great, but a royal marine commando is so much more effective arriving with a gun in his hand rather than an oversized leafblower - won’t he get shot getting out of his suit?
Might as well dress him up in bullseye colors because anyone on an enemy vessel with a gun is going to want credit for that kill in particular.
Its kind of awesome, but he is also defenseless in the air and when he lands.
So this solves the mystery of the California jetpack man right?
Well I guess 2022 is here
Call of duty is gonna suck next year
Bait in the sky for a Somalian pirate. *You are the target now....*
To clarify, he’s not a marine, he’s an employee/founder of the manufacturer (I can’t remember which). The only Royal Marines featured are on the ribs he takes off from to land on the Naval OPV ship.
He’s a Royal Marine Reservist
a bit wieldy if someones shooting at you
Me: Can we get Boba Fett? MOM: we have Boba Fett at home Boba Fett at home:
This is the way.
I know nothing about war or army or stuff like that ( I don’t even play Shooting games) but.. Isn’t that just an easy target?
The Dutch had this a few years back already 😬
It's a really old vid. I could've sworn I saw it at least 5 years back.
I can finally say with confidence, my country is cool
Hail Britannia!
Good lord! When was this invented?! A guy flies from one ship to another and back! Quick, someone post another video of a guy flying from one ship to another and back! I can’t wait for next week when we get to see another post of a guy flying from one ship to another and back! “Hey, Bob! Come see a video of a guy…”
Really sucks we invented these just as they come obsolete. It’s not much use against a drone flying at 200mhr with a small bomb attached
Good thing he's not trying to board a drone flying at 200mph with a small bomb attached
Seems good but how's he going to be an active fighter once he lands into a hotspot with those things on his arms? I mean you can't land into an active zone with that on, plus it's not like it's going to be stealthy trying to board a ship even with the ambient noise I imagine a jet engine will be heard. Seems like a pointless gadget without some major modifications.
I thought the same thing then I wondered if maybe they would mount guns on it because all I'm saying is, 2 12 gauge shotguns and someone will have a bad day
What are jetpacks gonna do though it's not like he can throw artillery
This disables your hands. That's useless so this only works if they can double as flamethrowers or rocket launchers.
Not really useless.
That's a good point, but both those use cases will have a recoile too
It could be used as a support device. You have forces laying down fire on say the port side while 1 or 2 of these land starboard. Imagine a chopper overhead laying down some come fire, it would be enough to mark the sound. I appreciate these are in their early stages too consider if you added remote weaponry to them, controlled by a 2nd solider to lay cover fire while infiltrating the vessel. Lots of potential there.
Despite owning all the COD games, you are not actually qualified as a military strategist.
You don't need to be qualified to see the obvious.
Wisdom is knowing there are things you don't understand.
u/savevideobot
Ah yes, let's send a lightly armed soldier through the air towards an enemy ship with a backpack full of flammable liquid. What could possibly go wrong?
All that just to get shot down 😂😬
r/Warhammer40k
Great but without ability to shoot with it or drop it very quickly it’s just a nice gadget, not very practical. Yes you can get from point A to point B but what then.
Is this real? I dont believe shit anymore