Prepare to be boarded!

[brenda]

The future has arrived.

I wonder how much the jet pack weighs. It appears to be fairly light, yet it requires both hands to operate. If the person flying to the ship isn't shot down, how well could they defend themselves from an attack upon arrival?

[Doctor Phibes]

James Bond laughed.

Aldrich Ames wept.

[LuFins Dad]

I’ll take 4, please. Can you offer 240 months no interest?

[Aqua Letifer]

The future is too much and I'd like to go home now.

[Loki]

@aqua-letifer said in Prepare to be boarded!:

The future is too much and I'd like to go home now.

Come on, you saw that as a cartoon many times as a kid. It took forever to come true.

[brenda]

How long until these are commercially available for commuters?

How fast can they fly?

I have so many questions about these things. I can hardly wait until they are available for purchase.

[LuFins Dad]

Now combine it with one of those wing suits, and we are getting somewhere...

[Mik]

@brenda said in Prepare to be boarded!:

How long until these are commercially available for commuters?

How fast can they fly?

I have so many questions about these things. I can hardly wait until they are available for purchase.

Flying cars. I was told we'd all have flying cars.

[brenda]

@mik said in Prepare to be boarded!:

@brenda said in Prepare to be boarded!:

How long until these are commercially available for commuters?

How fast can they fly?

I have so many questions about these things. I can hardly wait until they are available for purchase.

Flying cars. I was told we'd all have flying cars.

I'll have one of these while we wait for the flying cars, please.

[Copper]

That guy is really vulnerable in flight.

They need a shoulder-mounted gun that they can fire by looking at a target.

Or maybe thought-controlled like Clint in Firefox.

Link to video.

[Jolly]

No way that works against an armed vessel in daylight and I don't want to be the guy that does that at night.

[George K]

@jolly said in Prepare to be boarded!:

No way that works against an armed vessel in daylight and I don't want to be the guy that does that at night.

As was said, the guy's a sitting (flying) duck.

Still cool to watch.

[Jolly]

@george-k said in Prepare to be boarded!:

@jolly said in Prepare to be boarded!:

No way that works against an armed vessel in daylight and I don't want to be the guy that does that at night.

As was said, the guy's a sitting (flying) duck.

Still cool to watch.

Very cool.

And, it does have applications...Think unarmed merchant ship or cruise ship.

[George K]

@jolly said in Prepare to be boarded!:

Think unarmed merchant ship or cruise ship.

Here's the link that showed the video:

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-royal-marine-jet-suit-practice-mock-maritime-boarding-operations

Commercial vessels have been prone to seizure by pirates worldwide has been an ongoing nightmare for special forces operators. There are a couple of ways to board ships, but one of the most innovative and fastest are with jetpacks.

Jet suit developer Gravity Industries released a 3-minute video Saturday of how jet suits used by the Royal Marines can make boarding operations seamless.

Powered by micro-gas turbine jet engines, the Gravity suit can propel a marine from a special operations boat to a much larger ship. In this demo, the mock operation shows a marine taking off from an all-black Zodiac and quickly boarding the HMS Tamar.

The only alternative is a noisy helicopter that pirates could shoot down with RPGs or assault rifles.

Jet suits are a highly disruptive technology that has certainly caught the attention of the Royal Marines. Other applications have been paramedics in England using the suits to respond to emergency calls in rugged areas in the Lake District region.