Jetpacks: Pentagon Accession to United States Military Future

The EE’s Advanced Defense Investigation Agency. UU. (DARPA), part of the Department of Defense, is studying the technical viability of military mochilas propulsoras military and other volatile personnel platforms, potentially for use by the special forces forces in the country.

To the end he opened a convocation from the 2nd of March to understand the practice of a “Portable personal air conditioning system”.

Hasta now, the mochilas propulsoras have side mainly material of fiction, movies or shows, although some military has shown recent interest. In 2020, the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom will demonstrate that various members of staff will expedite a boat with propeller blades manufactured by Gravity Industries. The Special Operations Command of EE.UU. has a development agreement with JetPack Aviation in 2016. The JB-11 JetPack from this company is powered by its small reaction engines, has a maximum speed of 109 kt (200 km / h) and a resistance of 10 minutes.

DARPA says that dicho system must provide completely new designs or modifications to existing systems. Technology examples include those that are of interest include mochilas propulsors, motorized planes, motorized trajectories and motorized umbrellas. The Air Mobility Portal System Personal power plant operates with electric propulsion technologies, hydrogen combustion pills or conventional combustion propulsion systems, dice.

“These platforms can serve a variety of military missions, allowing for the usefulness and agility of profitable missions in areas such as staff logistics, urban development, [búsqueda y rescate de combate], maritime interdiction and [infiltración y exfiltración de fuerzas de operaciones especiales]”, dice the investigation agency.

The systems can be deployed in the air to allow infiltration into hostile territory, or to be deployed in the air to allow a mayor to carry out the carriage without the use of existing aircraft and vertical atria, such as helicopters and [Bell Boeing] CV-22 ”, agrega.

The platforms will be used by a single user or the user will be reusable, although the system will require a minimum of repair and redevelopment work.

Different from the AFWERX Agility Prime program, an escape route from the Air Force of the EE. UU. In order to develop low-flying aeronautical and vertical airfoils, DARPA has systems that can be transported by a single person. The system must be able to deploy one of its portable containers or mobility bags.

“When implemented, the systems allow mobility at a range of less than 5 km (3.1 mi) for a single operator, probably at high media speeds”, dice DARPA. ‘The systems need to be designed in such a way that the assembly and implementation can be carried out in less than 10 minutes using only simple or simple tools ”.

The system must be able to launch without the help of an ambient factor, such as the wind or the elevation.

DARPA wants the system to be seamless, with both red and infrared companies.

The Portable Air Mobility System Personal Debe should be simple enough to operate as if it were not known to be able to learn with relatively little training.

“It is provided that the computer-assisted control functions and intuitive interfaces allow an operating system to operate in addition to a general design of the system that allows rapid and uncomplicated configuration”, dice DARPA.

All this project is thoughtful in both parts: Phase I will be a reality study; and Phase II will focus on developing the technology with more analysis and testing campaigns that culminate in testing in the field and in fuel. The agency accepts Phase I proposals for a cost of up to $ 225,000 for a six-month period, and Phase II proposals for a cost of up to $ 1.5 million and up to two years of start.

DARPA says that depending on the results of the development effort, since the Pentagon could be interested in making the transition from technology to operational capability for its special forces.

The agency also presents the possible posters that the technology could have a double use.

“Inside the private sector, there is a large market for personal mobility systems to respond to emergencies, including policing, search and rescue, and in particular the critical time ambulance response”, double DARPA. “Depending on the system, we can surpass a wide variety of critical use cases for commercialization, including urban mobility or recreation.”.

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