Yup. The Royal Marines that are developing the idea, and the company’s founder is a former Royal Marines reservist. But the Glock attachment is a US Nazy Joint Prototyping and Experimentation Maritime development. It seems like everyone is looking at this as a great tool for ship to ship interdiction and boarding.
Rather than having to use a slow rigid inflatable boat and climb into the ship with a rope ladder, or transfer with a helicopter that can only effectively drop all your troops in one location, you use these to individually drop your troops off in precise locations around the ship.
The article says that this is a UK company, I thought?
Yup. The Royal Marines that are developing the idea, and the company’s founder is a former Royal Marines reservist. But the Glock attachment is a US Nazy Joint Prototyping and Experimentation Maritime development. It seems like everyone is looking at this as a great tool for ship to ship interdiction and boarding.
Rather than having to use a slow rigid inflatable boat and climb into the ship with a rope ladder, or transfer with a helicopter that can only effectively drop all your troops in one location, you use these to individually drop your troops off in precise locations around the ship.
Basically this but with jetpacks.