Remember those days of the jet packs?
The beginning scene of one of the James Bond early movies was when Bond kills a guy dressed like a woman and then made his escape in a jet pack……or those days when the jet packs were used in the openings of football games…..on and on…..
What happened to that idea?
It never went away….as a matter of fact a new generation of these machines are being tested as I type……
Wearable flight systems are apparently progressing and Special Operation Forces (SOF) may “soon” be equipped with such platforms, according to a report by Jane’s.
Reportedly, USSOCOM and French COS, both SOF components are considering jetpack technology.
“JetPack Aviation’s JB11 JetPack is being developed under a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) signed in 2016 with US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC).”
While French DGA is studying Zapata’s Flyboard Air technology as a concept but is not yet considering such systems for operational use.
Soon the troops may be using a new form of the jet pack as an operational tool…..
Any thoughts?
Drones, jet packs, feels like modern warfare is heading the way of video games. Sadly, jet-pack of not, it is still all too easy to get killed.
Best wishes, Pete.
True that and to make it less offensive to the masses….chuq
Very nice new technology. Just made for war, but i think in future we have not to deal with inter state wars, more inner state civil wars. Therefore our parliaments in Europe are doing a lot to control the internet for providing the prediction skills of the NSA. As i read a year in the past, the NSA is able to predict civil war activities all over the world during three days. Michael
Morning Michael…….this technology has come a long way from the 60s…..I believe one of my old professors came up with the algorithm Bruce de Mesquita and if so it is very accurate….chuq