Generally speaking you don’t airdrop troopers directly into an urban area since there are lots of things you can hit as you fall. Those paratrooper parachutes have little control compared to a civilian parachute. In the US all airborne and air assault bases have huge open fields for troops to practice in since you really don’t want your soldiers smacking into signs and cars during a training event. It’s expensive to fix them up after.
Thank you, all of that makes sense of course. I assumed that having troops with urban drop experience was the point, but if the point is to avoid urban drops at all costs then yeah this just seems like a way to hurt people and damage stuff. But like not in the normal military way.
I mean, you should probably practice the areas you will be landing in. If you only practice in open fields wtf you going to do in a real war when you need to land in a forest or a city.
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Luccus@feddit.org · 10 pts · 48d
I mean, they are leaning.
I don't know if I'd have them learning at like 15mph into a civilian car, against buildings and at billboards.
Unless they are also learning about insurance policies.
Edit: ensurance → insurance
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 48d
insurance, right?
eaterofclowns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d
What am I missing here? Isn't this the point of training?
teft@piefed.social · 29 pts · 48d
Generally speaking you don’t airdrop troopers directly into an urban area since there are lots of things you can hit as you fall. Those paratrooper parachutes have little control compared to a civilian parachute. In the US all airborne and air assault bases have huge open fields for troops to practice in since you really don’t want your soldiers smacking into signs and cars during a training event. It’s expensive to fix them up after.
eaterofclowns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 48d
Thank you, all of that makes sense of course. I assumed that having troops with urban drop experience was the point, but if the point is to avoid urban drops at all costs then yeah this just seems like a way to hurt people and damage stuff. But like not in the normal military way.
kcuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d
Ya this is wildly unnecessary risk. Hopefully no one hit a power line. These chutes just go where the wind takes them
liuther9@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 47d
It is a raining men. Hallilujah!
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 47d
I mean, you should probably practice the areas you will be landing in. If you only practice in open fields wtf you going to do in a real war when you need to land in a forest or a city.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
Though that one guy almost landed on top of that sign, which would have been cool until he thought about how to get down.