Been paying attention to this since several youtube videos from a while back, it seems its still dependent on being able to land on a nearby hospitable surface and can only really go for short bursts as compared to days.
Base jumping is viable from even a few hundred feet... A highly mobile aerial approach platform that could let troops parachute down at sub-radar heights before auto-piloting off wouldn't necessarily need much range to make sense as a special ops tool.
I'm thinking about mountain ranges in Afghanistan and military installations with too-obvious ground approaches. This unit looks like it could be smuggled in an SUV.
Yeah 5 minutes on one of these could be enough to get you up some really impassable terrain. They could auto be used to drop supplies, or perform rescues (configured differently)
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Here are the youtube videos I saw before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEl5S0w62E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWE96c31vc
I'm thinking about mountain ranges in Afghanistan and military installations with too-obvious ground approaches. This unit looks like it could be smuggled in an SUV.