We ODST now.

>>29316255
>within a few miles

A bit too imprecise, isn't it?

>>29316269
for a small team, though if you drop a battalion or more.

>>29316255
>Properly calculated, you could drop troops with in a few miles of an intended target.

cool and then what?

>>29316255

> halo babies think their shitty COD in space Xbox game invented the idea of drop troopers.

>>29316269

Still impressive considering that's a normal range for paratroopers only a few decades earlier.

>>29316255
Easily intercepted by BMD

>>29316297
normal range for paratroopers today

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>>29316296

>>29316255
>being trapped in foam unable to move
Well, off to /d/.

>>29316318

Thats more like it.

>>29316307

Very true.

They can't all jump out at once, and those planes go several miles per minute.

>>29316370
It could be done a lot better but the US is retarded about this sort of thing

>>29316370
They could fix that if they all did freefall jumps out the back and use the parafoil instead of the t11.

>>29316426
Can't do free fall jumps from 500 feet

I believe a lot of the problem is that they weigh them down with like 200 lbs of equipment & extra shit that could all be dropped seperately.
Ofc a dated 50's parachute design doesn't help.

>>29316296
It didn't invent it but it popularised it to the current generation.

Get over yourself grandpa, we get it, you know about old things.

>>29316464
jump higher and spend some of that two weeks of jump school teaching soldiers to steer a parafoil. So they can all land with in hundreds of meters of each other.

the landing will be easier on the soldiers too. Since you come in at an angle and can run out your landing. unlike with static line, where you just lawn dart into the ground.

the heavy gear isn't a problem. Since your pack and weapon are dropped to the ground before you hit.

>>29316507
You over estimate the average IQ of those in the military.

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>>29316307
No, it's not. Individual paratroopers do not land miles away from each other.

>>29316370
They scatter on a narrow, somewhat long landing zone along the aircraft's flight path. Even then, they land within a dozen meters of eachother.

>>29316426
>>29316507
Some are. For most, that would be a totally pointless waste of time and money, and hugely dangerous. A major paratrooper deployment can have hundreds of men dropping in a small area at once. Nobody can steer, and if they did try they'd tangle their shit and die.

>>29316464
Static line from 500 feet allows 64 people from one aircraft to land as close to each other, with as much equipment, as is practical.

>>29316507
If you want to do fancy metal gear solid shit you go to a different school and learn how to do all kinds of jumps and land on target with a steerable parafoil, but they only want you if you are a monomaniac with a perfect background check that speaks Farsi and a little Arabic and can get by in German.

Paratroopers don't need that shit and would never get to use it.

>>29316602

IQ tests actually measure how gullible you are.