Defense Tech: Imagine if This Guy on a Hover Board Was a Soldier on a Battlefield
A flying platform able to lift a person as high as 10,000 feet and race over land or water at high speeds could have huge military implications.
For one, future airborne troops may not just fall from the sky, they might leap back into the air.
The so-called Flyboard Air is still undergoing testing by Zapata Racing of France — the folks who just a few years ago came out with the Flyboard, which allows people to perform incredible over-water acrobatics via a hose and powerful jet stream of water.
The latest invention reportedly no longer requires the tether hose, keeping the user over water. If real, Flyboard Air is right out of your wildest sci-fi imagination — the closest thing yet to the Spider-Man nemesis Green Goblin’s hover board.
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WNU Editor: Wow .... I am impressed. I know that this is just a proto-type .... and there are probably a lot of limitations .... but one can only imagine where this technology will bring us in 10, 20, or 30 years from now.
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