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Originally posted by jhill76
This would be easy to drop a man in a hot zone and him get out quickly without trying to land a coptor.
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
Well he's a Captain for Swiss Air which means he's probably making over 200k a year, so I doubt anyone is going to persuade him change his profession. Maybe he & his investors will sell it, but with a 5-10 minute fuel supply it's probably more a recreational toy. Only James Bond would use such a device to escape some mountain top.
[edit on 15-5-2008 by verylowfrequency]
Originally posted by NovusOrdoMundi
Originally posted by jhill76
This would be easy to drop a man in a hot zone and him get out quickly without trying to land a coptor.
Not really. Once the device is spotted being deployed from another aircraft, all the opposing military would have to do is calculate the estimated speed over a 5-10 minute energy supply span and that will give them a minimum/maximum distance traveled perimeter to search.
I don't think we'll be seeing this as a military weapon anytime soon unless it turns in to an unmanned vehicle and is used to deploy nano-robotics for surveillance or attack purposes.