Task & Purpose: Watch a jetpack-flying Royal Marine board a ship like freakin’ Boba Fett
This thing is sick.
I hope you are ready for jet-powered Marines to attack the enemy as if they are Mandalorians because a new video from Gravity Industries shows what it may look like: an armed, bearded, jet-backpacked operator doing a high-flying hop from a rubber boat onto a ship in mere seconds.
“The footage speaks for itself,” the company wrote on YouTube after its successful demonstration of its Jet Suit, which gives an operator more than 1,000 horsepower of jet power literally at their fingertips.
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WNU Editor: This is so cool.
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2 comments:
It is cool. On a side note, a person is also ve3ry dead, if there is not a quick release, if the pack fails.
Also no way to wield a weapon during the flight - in super close proximity to hostiles - who might not be mesmerized by the coolness of it. A very large, slow, floating target.
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