The jet pack/suit

What advantages will this kind of thing have compared to a small helicopter?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The tech is still raw. Let it keep cooking for a few decades.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I see this being useful for self-rescue on sinking ships and getting into firing positions far in advance of enemy contact. I don't see much merit in actual combat, a lot of its benefits are negated by it constantly screaming at 150db.

      Black person, jetpacks have been cooking for half a century. Bell had a working one in the 60s, when I was a kid there were ducted fan ones being prototyped and when I was in highschool there were always vids of the martin jetpack on discovery channel.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >self-rescue on sinking ships
        Are you dumb.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Main area it seems to be having relevance is boarding actions for coast guard. Let's you get boots on board the vessel much faster than needing to park alongside and climb a ladder. Could be essential in some operations to prevent destruction of evidence or scuttling of the ship.

    In the future, could possibly see special forces teams deploy from helos/vtol using these rather than fast roping. Would give the advantage that the carrier vehicle can stay moving over target, no need to hover or land to deploy troops.

    In almost any scenario tho, the jet suit is only for getting from point A to B quickly, and it's gotta be easy to remove so you can quickly attain a fighting stance or cover.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it's gotta be easy to remove so you can quickly attain a fighting stance

      IIf they can figure out a way to free up the arms and allow for some kind of control mechanism that doesn't require them to take their hands off of a weapon you'd have a platform you could probably take into combat or, at the very least, increase their combat capability so now a Coast guard down and have a rifle trained on whatever drug runners he's flying over and can hold them down until the rhib shows up.

      >If they can figure out a way to free up the arms
      This is the main problem that needs to be solved. You control your vertical speed with the angle of your arms, point down to ascend, out to the side to descend. You can't have a quick disconnect or a holster or whatever because you have to wait for the jets to spool down before you can let go of the controls/discard them without them flying around uncontrollably. You can't mount a weapon to the gauntlets because the thrust would make it impossible to aim. Having your maneuvering engines on your arms is what makes it so stable and intuitive to fly, moving them to some other mount and changing the way you control it would massively complicate the design.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Boost recruitment for zoomies than love iron man.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      No cap

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    IIf they can figure out a way to free up the arms and allow for some kind of control mechanism that doesn't require them to take their hands off of a weapon you'd have a platform you could probably take into combat or, at the very least, increase their combat capability so now a Coast guard down and have a rifle trained on whatever drug runners he's flying over and can hold them down until the rhib shows up.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The biggest military applications I can see for these things is if you're on the ground with a gun and need to get to higher ground really quickly, perhaps on top of buildings for example so you can ambush enemies from the upper floors. Other than that though, there's no real advantages to using these over UAVs, since UAVs are way less of a liability. But god damn if those aren't cool as frick

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it can be used to increase mobility of some infantry - being able to hop on building or survive it folding beneath you... but actual fighting platform? drone will be 80 -100 kg lighter for same capabilities and without huge squishy target to shoot at...

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    anti-piracy

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's the sort of thing that could be very useful for mountain infantry; it would turn a (dangerous and energetic) full days trek across mountainous terrain into a scenic 20 minute flight. As everyone has pointed out you'd ditch the jet before engaging the enemy though. Even if it does happen at some point in the future we're a long way from jet-pack shooting the enemy while dancing through the sky.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not sure it's rated for high altitude flight tbh anon, but I'm sure it could be modified.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        There's a similar unit that was being trialled by UK Mountain Rescue services (where getting up a mountain in a few minutes compared to a few hours could be the difference between life and death) and while it wasn't exactly the top of the Himalayas they managed pretty well with it.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Has the war in Ukraine changed anyone's perception of these things? I used to firmly be in the mindset that they were pretty useless and just served to turn troops to expensive clay pigeons, but some of the recent trench footage has caused some doubt in my mind. You see footage of troops in dugouts and bunkers sheltering from artillery essentially blind, then taking several minutes to get in position for an infantry foot assault from the enemy. I imagine that if the infantry assault could be make individually air mobile, you could have troops attacking while the enemy is still waiting to see if more shells are incoming.

    Of course you could use mechanized troops, but the pervasive nature of AT weapons is concerning.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Couldn't you get the same effect by having the assault on the trenches lead by a mechanised element? Russia can barely give every man they conscript a rifle at this point - do you really think they've got ATGMs to burn?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I doubt these things are gonna find their way into trench warfare. Russia's only been stuck in trench warefare because they couldn't establish air dominance. Why the frick would you spend time and money on getting your soldiers flying for trench warfare when you could be pouring that shit into establishing air dominance?

      It's safe to assume soldiers using this shit are gonna have air support and not be pinned by artillery.

      You need to think about these things as an alternative to helicopters and drones in niche situations for the dominant force in asymmetrical warfare.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Has the war in Ukraine changed anyone's perception of these things
      Not really. Ukraine is a fricking trench war on the level of the Iran Iraq war. Nothing really groundbreaking about this war except for the realization that everyone now has drones.
      > I imagine that if the infantry assault could be make individually air mobile, you could have troops attacking while the enemy is still waiting to see if more shells are incoming.
      No. They'd just get shot out of the air after the enemy clued into their use.
      This shit will be great for seizing ships or oil rigs. And for lower intensity urban combat you could have teams clear buildings from the top down, rather than the bottom up. This is great because grenades tend to bounce downstairs, not up.
      But for regular two dimensional warfare, it has basically no application.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I imagine that if the infantry assault could be make individually air mobile

      I keep getting flashbacks to the Starship Troopers book with the jetpack mobile infantry that bounce around dropping bombs everywhere.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shove yourself to the top of a building. Jump up a cliff. Tell rivers, trees, or rough terrain in general to go frick itself.
    Generally getting an advantageous position from which to do operator things.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    None. The whole idea is moronic until ai can control it.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    We've already seen in the last year that soldiers are completely blind to threats above them so jump suits that let you land on top of enemies will be incredibly effective

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    imagine shooting down a grunt with a stinger

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine shooting down a grunt with a Stugna-P

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you can jump on the enemy positions and chop them into pieces with your chainsword

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    zero. it's a toy. if it had any practical use whatsoever we'd already have them, this has been possible and not hard for like 40 years now

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A dozen men patrolling the streets and two of those jumping from roof to roof.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its a recruiting tool for the next generation of zogbots.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are you even asking?

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was thinking how a bigger drone could be used to ferry a small recon/infiltration team over a river one guy at a time

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why not make it a little bigger so you can fit even more people on it, would have the added benefit of having more room for fuel giving it much longer range as well.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Why not make it a little bigger so you can fit even more people on it, would have the added benefit of having more room for fuel giving it much longer range as well.
        Because then everyone dies to a single MANPAD

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Instead you want everyone to die to a single machine gun burst?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Instead you want everyone to die to a single machine gun burst?
            If you're in range of a machine gun, you already did better than the helicopter. So yes. That would be preferable.

            If they can get the things to where either tandem flights are possible or you can have a free arm while flying, or just provide drone support, then that'd cover landings against machine gun fire and from there they're fine.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        One could be dragged around by an ATV, the other can not

        Some kind of drone Helo that can be remotely controlled or autonomous as needed. Has weapons and the capacity to move a small team of individuals with a second one on hand to move/drop gear as needed.

        Even smaller.

        Literally just to hop over natural terrain person by person.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >ATV towed drone to ferry a squad over a single natural obstacle one at a time
          >Can only be used once in either direction because you have to leave the ATV back where you launched from.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some kind of drone Helo that can be remotely controlled or autonomous as needed. Has weapons and the capacity to move a small team of individuals with a second one on hand to move/drop gear as needed.

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