Cargo lashed to pallets heads to the ground--and it's not just a push and pray operation. Military units are now employing new Joint Precision Airdrop Systems that use GPS and wireless technology to help ensure that the parachute cargo gets where it's supposed to be going, even when dropped from a plane at high altitude. The first combat use of JPADS occurred in Afghanistan in August 2006.
Defense contractor Qinetiq said in November that a subsidiary had won a $1.7 million deal from the U.K.'s Royal Air Force to supply PADS technology for C-130J aircraft.
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- C-130 = Super Spooky?
- IIRC, before the end of the Vietnam fiasco the C-130 gunships were flying although they weren't nearly as potent or as accurate as what flies today. This would have been in the '68 period. The old AC-... (Read the rest)
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 Puff the Magic Dragon mgkdrgn | 01/02/08 |
 "Puff" was NOT a C-130 Dr_Zinj | 01/02/08 |
 They're loud... Dr. John | 01/02/08 |
| "Puff" was a "gooney bird" silvertip@... | 01/05/08 |
| C-130 Hercules gregory-wheeler@... | 01/02/08 |
| C-130 = Super Spooky? bodger@... | 01/07/08 |
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