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The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 10,000 feet
- alafazam 9y agoPage is removed. 404 is coming.
- fouc 9y agoloads fine for me
- c22 9y agoI'm no military strategist, but it seems like strapping backpacks full of rocket fuel on our combat troops might be a tactical error.
- gaius 9y agoWhy? They did that in WW2 remember.
- forkLding 9y agoBeen paying attention to this since several youtube videos from a while back, it seems its still dependent on being able to land on a nearby hospitable surface and can only really go for short bursts as compared to days. Here are the youtube videos I saw before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEl5S0w62E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEl5S0w62E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWE96c31vc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWE96c31vc
- bonesss 9y agoBase jumping is viable from even a few hundred feet... A highly mobile aerial approach platform that could let troops parachute down at sub-radar heights before auto-piloting off wouldn't necessarily need much range to make sense as a special ops tool. I'm thinking about mountain ranges in Afghanistan and military installations with too-obvious ground approaches. This unit looks like it could be smuggled in an SUV.
- aplummer 9y agoYeah 5 minutes on one of these could be enough to get you up some really impassable terrain. They could auto be used to drop supplies, or perform rescues (configured differently)