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That's pretty cool, but the serviceperson doing the boarding has both hands fully occupied and might get shot at with no way to fire back.
by cryptonector 6y ago
That's pretty cool, but the serviceperson doing the boarding has both hands fully occupied and might get shot at with no way to fire back.
- djrogers 6y agoThe same is true for a marine climbing a boarding ladder, net, or rope, or fast roping down from a helicopter (which would also be vulnerable to gunfire). This is an alternative to some of those options.
- simonh 6y agoExactly, this is an option for covert entry, or access to a location hard to reach any other way. If someone is shooting at you during infiltration, something has already gone horribly wrong and the whole thing is blown anyway.
- Tuna-Fish 6y agoNothing about this is covert. The jetsuit is really quite staggeringly loud.
- cryptonector 6y agoA helicopter is a lot less vulnerable, not least because it can put out suppressing fire.
- dharmab 6y agoUsually you would have someone else on a boat or helicopter with a gun to cover the boarders.
- cryptonector 6y agoDid you see the video? The angles involved may not be shallow enough.
- Tuna-Fish 6y ago... When a warship is sending a party to board you, shooting at them is a very good way of ending up sunk. People have a very wrong idea of the situation where this would be used. The warship that sends the boarding party is going to have an overwhelming firepower advantage over anything they intend to board. They could sink the ship and kill everyone on board in less than a minute if they wanted to. The point is, in peacetime that's not a line they are going to cross unless the idiots start shooting first. A lot of the job of navies is basically acting as the sea cops, harassing wayward freighters and fishing ships into obeying whatever laws they are currently breaking. It's quite common for, say, Chinese ships to just try and leave fast enough that it's impossible to board them, trusting that the Naval vessel accosting them is not willing to start a shooting war. This adds another option for boarding such vessels.
- FredPret 6y agoUnless the pirate ship has hostages on board, then you might have to board it while shooting. Not a job I envy
- ModernMech 6y agoWhat about shoulder-mounted autonomous weapons?
- sideshowb 6y agoAlternatively a remote pilot
- cryptonector 6y agoThat could work!
- iso1210 6y agoTank missiles, deployed by Siri?