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04-11-2011, 03:55 PM
zuludelta
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A powered wing like the Gryphon I imagine would provide a much longer range than any unpowered wingsuit or HAHO jump and I can't see how the training to operate or maintain it would be that extensive or costly.
Well, parachute riggers, who maintain all aerial delivery systems from parachutes to sling load gear, aren't normally trained to work with engines or flying surfaces. That means all maintenance will either have to be done at the depot-level using private contractors from the company that makes the Gryphon, or you'll need to train the riggers assigned to the unit using the Gryphon. Either option wouldn't be all that cost-effective (if we're looking at this from the perspective that tried-and-true OTH insertion methods already exist).
Training to use the Gryphon would be similarly prohibitive, if not more so. The USPA rule is that a skydiver needs at least 200 free fall jumps within the past 18 months before he is allowed his first training jump with a wingsuit. Assuming that using a powered wing like the Gryphon would need, at minimum, the same training requirements as using a commercial, non-powered wingsuit, I don't know how you'd squeeze in 200 free fall/HALO/HAHO jumps within 18 months (that's one HALO/HAHO jump every three days... think about the cost in aircraft fuel alone) and the separate wingsuit qualification training within a special operator's already busy training and deployment schedule. That's a massive, massive outlay of resources and (more importantly) time, all so he can use a rather niche piece of equipment that he'll probably never utilize in operations (to put things in perspective, the US military has conducted ~50 combat jumps since airborne military insertion techniques were first introduced in the US armed forces in 1942, and only around 6 of them were of the HALO/HAHO variety).
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