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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Boarding parties away!!!

 


36 comments:

  1. Cool.
    But that guy is getting shot out of the sky.
    Also notice he can’t use his hands until he gets rid of the thrusters.
    If he is even able to land by the time he gets rid of those he will be dead.

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  2. Somali pirates will make good use of that jet pack.
    Daryl

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  3. Under what conditions would you use something like that ?? If you are seriously trying to use it under combat or adversarial conditions you better have a bunch of guys. I would just shoot his butt down. Also ( I saw this or similar clip on the news) It looks like their hands are too busy-full with the jet engines. Can this guy doing the boarding carry a gun ??

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    1. I don't know about navql ships but merchant ships when under way, the weather deck is nearly entirely devoid of crew, even if observing. CCTV requires an observer. Unless there are motion alarms, which send security into an already comprom8zed zone. New technology requires new methods to respond.

      I suspect every ship, in whatever phase or 'evolution', including .mil, has wide spaces empty of survelliance or watch, if only for some of the time. Invasion exploits that time.

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  4. Thor and the rest of the Avengers did not participate in this exercise. Ohio Guy

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  5. If that's real: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

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  6. I don't really understand the use here. If you are boarding a non hostile vessel, why would you not just have a crew member on that vessel throw over the boarding ladder. if you are boarding a hostile vessel, space man is going to get blown out of the sky like a slow moving duck

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    1. Not shown is armament available to flyboy. He's more than COD. His delivery is more kinetic.

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  7. Yeah like nobody's going to lay a bead on your magic flyboys. Let them land AND help them deploy the boarding ladders eh?

    I've seen a RIB assault boat like that take fire, it's not pretty when they deflate and the crews are floating and bleeding out in the ocean.

    Cute idea but as SGT Shultz might say "But Stupid".

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  8. Landing on a hostile deck with your dick on one hand and a rope ladder in the other. Nope.

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  9. When "rocket man" is shot down, is there an explosion?

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    1. It better be the sound when you fail at Pacman

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  10. That is some cool shit but can they do while taking fire?

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  11. He looks like he would be an easy target if trying to board an enemy ship, but would be welcome if he was the mailman.

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  12. Impressive, but why the fuk would you throw the rope ladder over the 30' side of the ship instead of the 10' side??? Never understood squid thinking! Lol.

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    1. Take the high ground first?

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    2. Because this is marketing. How exciting to climb 30'. Its the same stuff as when car commercials show throwing rooster rails in sand wheread in real life you're stuck in traffic on pavement.

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  13. "Boarding" is not for hostile crafts. Boarding is usually done for customs enforcement, maritime interdiction, and sanctions enforcement. Spent a year and a half directing seal team, coast guard team, and royal marine boardings of ships after 9/11 in the persian gulf and north arabian sea. Many of those boardings could have benefitted from and been made safer by something like this--once the technology reaches maturity. We tested small UAVs while we were conducting these ops. Everyone said those were useless, too.

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  14. Only really effective if they can be refueled mid-air by a KC-35.

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    1. Boy, you are old. KC-135 went away aloooonnnng time ago.

      (I still call 'em -135s too.)

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    2. The Air Force still has a ton of 135's in service. I remember as a kid being told that the KC-10 would replace them in 10-20 years...and 30 years later, it's still not reality.

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    3. The running joke is that a KC-135 will refuel the last KC-10 on its way to the boneyard...

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    4. No joke. The KC-10s were designed as commercial transports, with a 40k hour life before a E-check (basically disassemble including removing rivets from skin) and rebuild...


      The KC-135 was designed without that limitation.

      But that last KC-10 crew will be flown home in a C130 Herc!

      Full disclosure: Field Service Engineer for Douglas Aircraft, KC-10s

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  15. P233 HMS Tamar

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  16. HMS Tamar, currently serving as part of keeping the French from Jersey fishing areas.

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  17. Be a darlin' and hand Daddy his goose gun, would ya?

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  18. new tech may seem dumb but it'll grow into some good shit.

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  19. Big deal! I fly like that quite frequently in my dreams, and don't need fancy equipment to do it. I actually enjoy those dreams, since it hurts like hell to walk any distance at all these days.

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  20. infantry in jetpacks AKA squishy skeet!

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  21. That's a mighty big target so even if your skills are shit that dude is going down to a crash and burn ending.
    JD

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  22. throw in some high tech invisible cloaking secret squirrel stuff and you might have something.

    that and a parameter security team for the landing party

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  23. Any of that stuff float? This is a tragedy about to happen.

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  24. That will be even cooler in 5 years. It does have a quick detach for if he ends up in the drink, right? Things can get a bit wobbly out there I reckon.

    -8notch

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