New Personal Mono-Wing

geekRECON writes to tell us that a new lightweight mono-wing is being tested by special forces as an aid to parachute deployment. From the article: "Fitted with oxygen supply, stabilization and navigation aides, troops wearing the wings will jump from a high-altitude transport aircraft which can stay far away from enemy territory - or on secret peacetime missions could avoid detection or suspicion by staying close to commercial airliner flight paths."

Bad ass!!

[gasmonso]

Here come the "I'm Batman" jokes :)

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Special forces to use strap-on...

[demonbug]

To get deep inside enemy territory.

Hyuck hyuck hyuck.

Seriously, looks like a hell of a lot of fun.

Not too close now

[Gat0r30y]

> "or on secret peacetime missions could avoid detection or suspicion by staying close to commercial airliner flight paths" Somehow that seems like it might go awry... I just can't quite put my finger on it though.

I for one...

[spikeham]

... welcome our new delta-winged overlords.

From ACME!

[Tackhead]

One look at the image in the article [dailymail.co.uk] immediately reminded me of the beta version.

Acme! [rr.com] The only Batman outfit worn by bats!

Strap-on?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow...my Firefox window was about 450px wide and all I see of the article title is "Special forces to use strap-on". Way to go special forces!

Re:Secret Peacetime Missions?

[raider_red]

"Secret peacetime missions" seems to be a euphamism for insearting intelligence agents into other countries. I'm not sure why we'd need it for this however, since American Airlines seems to be the best way to send in a spy.

Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen...

[ktakki]

Sounds neat, but the guy in that photo looks incredibly stupid with that wing strapped to his back. He looks like he's going to a costume party dressed as an F-4 Phantom.

Fuck hazard pay, is there "OMG I look like a dork!" pay?

k.

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ThinkGeek link please ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is the link to the relevant item on ThinkGeek ?

Re:Special forces to use strap-on...

[Shadow Wrought]

"Sir! We've penetrated the enemy's air defense envelope and are now thrusting deep into their bunker."

Yeah some things pretty much write themselves;-)

Re:Secret Peacetime Missions?

[Eli Gottlieb]

Secret Peacetime Missions == arresting dissidents, toppling Latin American leaders the government doesn't like, and just generally acting cool

Re:Just one question

[jonbrewer]

Sort of makes you wonder why they chose Norway/Sweden for 'training' runs :-)

Let's see... After a long, cold free fall, would you rather land:

a.) in a country of ubiquitous saunas and beautiful women
b.) in England

Re:Bad ass!!

[fireboy1919]

Actually, I was sort of wondering why the military was using a rather unpolished .net runtime [mono-project.com] to run their Wing.

I mean, wouldn't it be better to write it in C? Or maybe even use Java?

What's a wing, anyway? Is that a new framework with which I'm unfamiliar, or is it some new DoD language? Is Wing Ada.net?

I've seen this before

[sl4shd0rk]

That's the jump-jet infantry from Tiberian Sun.

Re:Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen...

[TheDreadSlashdotterD]

It's payback for those high school days. Don't worry about it.