The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 10,000 feet

Re:The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 1... by forkLding on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:29AM (#16519389)

Been paying attention to this since several youtube videos from a while back, it seems its still dependent on being able to land on a nearby hospitable surface and can only really go for short bursts as compared to days.

Here are the youtube videos I saw before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEl5S0w62E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWE96c31vc

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Re:The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 1... by bonesss on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:00AM (#16519506)

Base jumping is viable from even a few hundred feet... A highly mobile aerial approach platform that could let troops parachute down at sub-radar heights before auto-piloting off wouldn't necessarily need much range to make sense as a special ops tool.

I'm thinking about mountain ranges in Afghanistan and military installations with too-obvious ground approaches. This unit looks like it could be smuggled in an SUV.

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Re:The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 1... by aplummer on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:12AM (#16520769)

Yeah 5 minutes on one of these could be enough to get you up some really impassable terrain. They could auto be used to drop supplies, or perform rescues (configured differently)

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