France shows off flying soldier during Bastille Day Military Parade
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Yo if he selects hover -assist and default controls in settings it will be mad stable.
But seriously gyro stabilization is harder for a 200 pound guy than a gopro camera but the principles are the same - auto stabilization could easily accommodate sniper stuff.
not just hover assist we'll have aim assist like in console shooters
Oh yeah, the connection to military tech is tenuous at best. It's been around for a couple of F1 and Indycar races, just showing off.
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Crazy how fast he is. Also seems insanely dangerous, if he gets off balance I don't think there's any saving him
Never heard of this Zapata guy, but apparently he invented those water spout hover boards and jetpacks and now has an air hover board that he's going to use to fly over the Channel next week, complete with an in flight refueling maneuver? And he's only 40? What a boss. Single handedly making our Back to the Future dream future possible.
I don't think this has application in an assault, as people said you're just a big fat target with no cover. But to quickly get medical first responders or emergency supplies to a location, it's pretty useful to zip over terrain at high speeds without needing a pilot and a place to keep and land your helicopter.
I don't think this has application in an assault, as people said you're just a big fat target with no cover. But to quickly get medical first responders or emergency supplies to a location, it's pretty useful to zip over terrain at high speeds without needing a pilot and a place to keep and land your helicopter.
with time these things will probably be more silent and in a large scale military conflict you have to keep your eyes on both the ground and the skies above lol
or improve that technology and merge it with a future robot soldier
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It's "Le Bouffon Vert" :p
Goblin is also "goblin" in french, but bouffon vert sounds better in french than "Le Goblin Vert"
Bouffon means jester.
im thinking of the NYPD flying around neighborhoods looking through peoples windows for people to arrest
Kinda hard to hit a moving target from distance that has that kind of erratic movement. Makes more sense to be closer in range and use an automatic weapon.
Bringing down small, erratically moving airborne targets with sniper rifles is a Hollywood thing.
There’s a tried and true method of bringing down airborne targets with large caliber infantry rounds and it’s called a “machine gun”.
You could say the same about airborne and air cavalry troops, but they’re still widely used because the mobility trumps their vulnerability if you fucked up and dropped your troops into the teeth of the enemy AA.
The flight path of this thing seems to be a little predictable. I know its a prototype but wouldn't the shake correcting tech we have on smartphones for video be able to correctly predict where this thing is going to be, basically having the sniper gun bullets predict where the soldier is going to be and fire it at that location instead? Actually an automated sniper would make this thing obsolete right away. Well it would make a lot of things obsolete lol
From memory, these things have an incredibly short flight time of around 10-15 minutes and run on kerosene.
I would imagine it would be useful for rapid repositioning of front line infantry in order to flank or surround an enemy force. But not at all useful for any kind of sustained flight.
I would imagine it would be useful for rapid repositioning of front line infantry in order to flank or surround an enemy force. But not at all useful for any kind of sustained flight.
People who actually get involved in dangerous shit think it may be a good idea for niche uses.
IE: you can't drop a large amount of soldiers from a helicopter into a heavily fortified position, but a smaller team could storm it from above while ground-based forces provide support.
The French are encroached enough in Africa to know what they are doing. Certainly much more than the average Era member.
We're getting closer.with time these things will probably be more silent and in a large scale military conflict you have to keep your eyes on both the ground and the skies above lol
or improve that technology and merge it with a future robot soldier
Also glad to see people already covered Goblin.
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Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
This highlights how impractical it is. We already have remote controlled military drones that can be operated by a pilot sitting in a little hut thousands of miles away. There's no military reason to stand a giant clumping great human target on top of the drone, radically reducing its stability, operating range and manoeuvrability.
Special forces may conceivably find a use for this, but I imagine the noise from the gas turbine engines would tend to rule out the element of surprise they usually depend on.
Hahaha I can imagine him getting legit pissed that he didn't get to see anyone flying
You guys so amazed miss the thread last year?
Haha, none of that tech is new. Always neat to see in action though.
Edit* See the post above. Wasn't "new" when that video came out either though
Edit* See the post above. Wasn't "new" when that video came out either though