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Action-Packed Footage Shows Royal Navy Using Iron Man-Style Jet Suits to Practice Storming Vessels:
The UK's Royal Navy has been seen practising storming potential enemy vessels with the use of real-life Iron Man-style jet suits.
With a flight time of eight minutes, the suits give the wearer the ability to fly using five mini jet engines, with four strapped to his hands and one on his back.
The jets are said to be able to reach a speed capacity of 55 mph (88.51 kph). They are also able to generate a stunning brake horsepower of 1000bhp.
#FunFactFriday - The Royal Navy has been testing Jet Suit assault teams to determine if the Iron Man-like suits could be used to rapidly swarm and board ships. U.S. Special Operations Command is also evaluating a jetpack that can reach speeds of more than 200 mph. pic.twitter.com/mo5FoGWkDu
— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) October 16, 2020
The action-packed footage was widely shared on the Twitter page of the US Naval Institute, showing one man clad in the suit flying through the air from a sea vessel and successfully landing on a ship, only to return back to the vessel he took off from.
Another video shows four men in jet suits "levitating" effortlessly towards a vessel, as they soar through the sky, and shaking hands to congratulate each other after accomplishing the feat.
[...] The Institute added that US Special Operations Command was currently evaluating a jet pack that could potentially "reach speeds of more than 200 mph".
(Score: 4, Troll) by c0lo on Tuesday October 20 2020, @11:45AM (15 children)
You really want to be tracked by Russia too? You trust Runaway won't pick info sources to sucker you back to FoxNews and family and/or some other lunatic fringe sites? (which will at least try to track you)
A simple Google search [google.com] would have revealed safer place to read this.
Here:
1. All the videos the Gravity Industry published [youtube.com], including Navy Assault Trials [youtube.com] and Paramedic Mountain Response [youtube.com] + tens more going back to 3 years ago.
2. Jan 2019 - Watch an inventor take on a Royal Marines assault course in a jet suit [theverge.com]
3. July 2019 - Jetpack Inventor Goes Zipping Between Royal Navy Boats In Open Water Tests [thedrive.com]
4. Nov 2019 - 'Rocket Man' in jet-powered suit flies off a British aircraft carrier in Annapolis [wusa9.com]
5. Feb 2020 - A British Marine’s Jet Suit Turns its Pilot Into a Real-Life Iron Man [airspacemag.com]
You succas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Touché) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 20 2020, @01:58PM (10 children)
God help us, we're getting our American military propaganda stories from Foreign propaganda outlets instead of wholesome, red blooded American propaganda outlets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:20PM (7 children)
I thought that Trump was antiwar?
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:22PM (1 child)
Depends on how you define war. In terms of the continuing giga-expansion of american military spending, and increasing amounts of "targetted" slaughter abroad to maintain a facade of peace? No he's not anti-war. In terms of starting new stupid quagmire invasions of particular countries, you could make that case.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 22 2020, @09:43AM
He's not anti-war. He's just ever so slightly skeptical of the ruling dogma that says war is always good. He talks like he has this tiny, tiny little hint of insight that maybe SOMETIMES murdering people and destroying countries might not really be the best thing to do.
But our ruling class has become so reflexively pro-war, so automatically in favor of mass murder as a panacea, a cure-all for any and every problem, that simply showing that tiny bit of hesitation makes him /LOOK/ somewhat anti-war, by comparison.
It's utterly insane. The guy that literally admitted "we're keeping troops to guard the oil. we're keeping the oil" can be described as /anti-war/ - only because the field is so depraved, so bloodthirsty, so murderous that even this revolting thug can point at them and legitimately look good in comparison to the other Moloch worshippers.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:37PM (4 children)
He's anti-antifa.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:48PM (3 children)
So he's Anti-antifascist? So, pro-fascist. Makes sense.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Tuesday October 20 2020, @06:42PM (1 child)
You presume Antifa don't use fascist tactics, or are we all to believe that every single political group uses honesty when naming itself or legislation. PATRIOT Act springs to mind.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Tuesday October 20 2020, @10:23PM
Agree. Fight fire with fire for long enough, and you'll become an arsonist too.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 22 2020, @09:32AM
It's all a game of sorts, a distraction, an exhibition for the public eye, intended to keep the proles so riled up and focused on fighting each other that they never notice who's really screwing them.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:22PM (1 child)
It's much worse. See that "Royal Navy"? It's the Navy of the tyrants!!1one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 20 2020, @02:26PM
I considered getting bogged down in those details, but it made my post lose all its punch. Details aren't funny. The broadcaster of the story is the US naval institute, and if you search the internet for their name being attached to stories, they're pretty consistently "check out how cool the US military is" type propaganda stories.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @04:04PM (2 children)
Just to clarify, Sputnik News [wikipedia.org] is:
Since many folks here scream about linking to the the New York Times or the Washington Post, I find it interesting that no one finds it (well, aside from you, c0lo) odd to see (or even to submit) an article from Sputnik News.
I wonder how fast folks would scream bloody murder if an article from Voice of America (the *literal* American equivalent of Sputnik News) [wikipedia.org] made it to the front page?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @10:19PM (1 child)
On the same page, their "latest news" column:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2020, @11:07PM
If you get near a point, make it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by hemocyanin on Tuesday October 20 2020, @06:45PM
Strange how Democrats long for the cold war and pine for the McCarthy era.