Parachutes with Retro Rockets

[SERP4NT]

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[Gywyhr]

Any use of that system would compromise the airborne troops behind enemy lines.

[hotfreshrider]

gizmodo.com sent you here!

[sissy021]

in soviet russia..

ROCKET FLIES YOU

[ddsmooth]

meanwhile in russia...

[thethinking1]

ALMOST perfectly reliable...hmmm.

[NorthForkFisherman]

@thethinking1 Kinda like those perfectly reliable Russian subs and nuke plants? Who wants to be on the one where it's NOT perfectly reliable?

[TheSpongion]

In America, rockets are used for flying. In Soviet Russia, rockets are used for landing!

[voevoda43]

Only russia has this system !!!

СЛАВА РОССИИ !!!

[Chudluv1973]

@voevoda43 But they weren't the first to come up with the system. Read: “A Parachute Retro-Rocket Hybrid System for Low Altitude

Airdrop of Personnel Carriers and Cargo” by Stanley W. Jackson

[voevoda43]

@Chudluv1973

No, they were the first !

A live rocket airdrop test was conducted for the US Army

Natick Laboratories on 21 February 1963 at the Yuma Test Station,Arizona

A 4,000-pound load with four

G-13, 32 f t , diameter, hemispherical type parachutes and

six modified M-8 rocket motors was airdropped from a C-130

Aircraft at 130 knots airspeed and 1500 feet absolute altitude.Five of the six rockets failed to fire and one rocket fired as the load impacted !

[voevoda43]

@Chudluv1973

the first russian retro-rocket parachute system was tested in 1947. called PN-16 for 120 kg cargo

[voevoda43]

@Chudluv1973

Mr.Privalov began to research retro-rocket parachutes in 1940-41 (in WW II !!!)