US Marines plan to deploy from space
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"After three years of being laughed out of meetings, the U.S. Marine Corps' futuristic plans to deploy through space may finally be getting some traction," notes Aviation Week's spunky new spin-off, Defense Technology International.
Although the chuckle factor hasn't altogether disappeared, the Air Force Research Laboratory and Darpa are beginning a study of options for a reusable upper-stage space travel vehicle -- the same kind of technology that the Marines might need for a ride halfway across the globe.
The effort is called "Hot Eagle," and it could be the first step forward in the Marine Corps' hopes for space travel. Within minutes of bursting into the atmosphere beyond the speed of sound -- and dispatching that ominous sonic boom -- a small squad of Marines could be on the ground and ready to take care of business within 2 hours. [One presentation muses that the capsule might later be picked up by a Osprey or by a "balloon cable and C-17" transport plane. Or, the Marines might "hike out," and "leave [the] crew capsule behind." -- ed.]
The Marine Corps calls the concept the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion Capability (Sustain). This plan, a growing group of Marine supporters say, is the natural evolution of the service's proclivity for expeditionary warfare that began decades ago with amphibious landings...
The concept is to deliver strategic equipment or a small squad of soldiers to any point on the globe -- even the most hard-to-reach location -- within hours of need. Once on the ground, those soldiers can carry out strategically critical missions like reconnaissance or destroying a specific target.
At least, that's their pitch. -
dont you think the soldiers would be shagged out by the g force from the take off and re-entry? Even if not i am very sure they will be more or less affected by such extremes. haha then again quite cool if they could do that.
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quite like starship troopers...Originally posted by storm_freaky13:dont you think the soldiers would be shagged out by the g force from the take off and re-entry? Even if not i am very sure they will be more or less affected by such extremes. haha then again quite cool if they could do that. -
Or StarCraft.Originally posted by beavan:quite like starship troopers... -
Huh? they're aren't sending monkey's into space anymore? Poor monkeys... out of the job... displaced by the marines.
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Unless the US Army has managed to have certain breakthrough in exoskeletion tech, blastical protection tech, firearm tech. Else this rocketeer insertion method is useless and ruthlessly expensive....
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not quite rocketeer ...... they have a re-entry vehicle in mind actually .....Originally posted by archon1234:Unless the US Army has managed to have certain breakthrough in exoskeletion tech, blastical protection tech, firearm tech. Else this rocketeer insertion method is useless and ruthlessly expensive.... -
they might as well do away with this technique, and send bombs halfway round the globe to their target instead...
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bombs are not quite discriminate enough mah ....Originally posted by revvieeee:they might as well do away with this technique, and send bombs halfway round the globe to their target instead...
the US is very adverse to collatral damage .... unlike her enemies .... -
its way better than getting these 6 donkeys killed during the landing, even a high tech f16 can screw up when they encounter birds.. lol! i seriously doubt their technology man..Originally posted by Fatum:bombs are not quite discriminate enough mah ....
the US is very adverse to collatral damage .... unlike her enemies ....
by the time this tech is up, we would already have a space hotel on mars.. -
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Haha,brings back memories of a StarShip Troopers....so they gonna be equipped with Pulse rifles too? Also, can current SAMs and other weapons take them out?
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Maybe a F-15 with ASATs.
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if you're refering to the joke of a movie, ya, maybe.Originally posted by beavan:quite like starship troopers...
but those fools in the hollywood remake is totally
different from the originals in RAH's book. -
The best way to counter paratroopers, whether from space or the air... STAKES! Planted into the ground at an angle to impale anyone who lands there. Ho!