Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings'

Daily Mail ^ | 6/6/6 | Hickley

[Churchillspirit]

Duh....haven't had enough coffee yet this morning!

[Plutarch]

...concealing the 6ft wings after landing could prove harder than burying a traditional parachute.

Hmmm...tough problem....thinking...Oooh, I've got it!

Seeds can be embedded in the carbon fiber, and with watering and special forces Miracle Grow it will blend in as a Chia wing.

[reagan_fanatic]

What's next? Wing mounted hellfire missiles?

Maybe - although they would have to fire off two at the same time, one under each wing, otherwise they poor guy would spin like a top for the next twenty minutes or so.

[ASA Vet]

You were thinking of Hillary weren't you?

[AndrewB]

Or this: The strap-on device is excellent for pre-dawn insertions- particularly handy for rear guard action.

[FreedomPoster]

I saw that yesterday; looks like Darwinism waiting to happen, to me.

[FReepaholic]

...Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings'...

[FearlessFreep]

Use caution. People have been shown to wake with their underwear on backwards and a quarter in their hand.

[FearlessFreep]

...Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings'...

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My ex went thru so many of those she received frequent flyer miles.

[Yo-Yo]

Skydivers have been using Wingsuits for years, so this is just the next logical extension.

[ASA Vet]

They're gonna glide 120 miles, at night, with VFR. They're crazy.... :)

Well of course they are.
Being crazy is a SF MOS requirement.
Crazy is relative though, I'm sure they consider the chair-borne types as nuts.

[BadAndy]

Not Batman, Lawn-Dart Man.

[devane617]

No, I use a 2,4, or 6 in a 12g 3" magnum.

[Melas]

Your reasoning is all askew. Zooming in at 220 and chuting in at 20-35 at the last minute is a helluva lot less of a turkey shoot than the previous method of floating in at 20-35 alone.

With this system, the dropper's most vulnerable moments are still going to be while chuting in, but that time is now greatly minimized. This is huge progress.

[GraniteStateConservative]

He would probably just disintegrate you with his laser goggles.

[thackney]

One of you have got to get a set of these. Maybe with a tether attached to the pickup and enough speed...

[gregwest]

Can you imagine smacking into a flying goose at 220 mph?

[Centurion2000]

Now all they need are two of these on the wingtips .. .

Weight : 3.5 pounds
Thrust : 35 pounds
Fuel Consumption : 17.5 oz/min

[Sarajevo]

I would really hate to see a mass-tac while the jumkpers were wearing these.

[UNGN]

Now all they need are two of these on the wingtips .. .

This is where the "120 miles" is coming from. Small model aircraft turbojets would enable the range to go from 30 miles to over 100.