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04-11-2011, 02:10 PM | #15721 |
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The Accelerator Suits are out of my Joeverse. Now that I've decided to trim my collection, my Joeverse is only going to contain characters that I have 25th/ME construction for.
And if I can't work them into the Joeverse, then they go away.
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04-11-2011, 02:13 PM | #15722 |
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In Mark Bellomo's book, Hama said he wanted Flash to be the character that would eventually become 1985's Airtight (because he'd already written Flash as a CBRN/NBC specialist in his original filecard).
From a design perspective though, I think a "realistic" Flash would still work best as an infantry guy who uses a rifle equipped with an optical distraction laser attachment or possibly a fire support man (the guys who use laser designators/rangefinders to guide smart munitions launched by artillery). |
04-11-2011, 02:21 PM | #15723 |
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04-11-2011, 02:23 PM | #15724 |
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Well it's pretty out there but there have been some tentative steps in contemporary use of "one-man gliders" for military purposes. German company ESG made the Gryphon a few years back as a demonstrator for some of the tech they were developing. It's not a one man powered glider though, in that it can't be launched by being towed from the ground... in practice, it's really just a fancy parachute system: user jumps out of a plane at high-altitude, uses thrust vector control to adjust his heading, glides for up to 40 kilometers (depending on altitude of the jump), and then deploys his parachute. Apart from the thrust vectoring and the extended glide range, it's not much different in function from the wingsuits recreational skydivers use.
AFAIK, serious military interest in the Gryphon has stalled (har har) because of concerns about practicality and cost (does it really provide any real benefits over standard HALO/HAHO technology? Would the cost of training paratroopers to use the thrust vector controls be worth any benefits to be gained from the system?) |
04-11-2011, 02:26 PM | #15725 |
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My glider team, I had a great 4 letter term for it just forgot the term, uses jet packs and things like the assault glider.
One of the few high-tech things I use in my Joeverse.
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04-11-2011, 02:32 PM | #15726 |
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It seems like there would be a select benefit for small covert ops units that need to extend their glide range from the shorter range of normal HAHO operations. Certainly wouldn't have servie-wide conventional use.
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04-11-2011, 02:33 PM | #15727 |
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Dogfight's first "appearance" that I was referring to was in Special Missions #16. But as I mentioned, he looked nothing like the Dogfight toy... he was obviously drawn by Herb Trimpe to be Slipstream, which leads me to think that he was Slipstream in the original script written by Hama that Trimpe worked from (since Hama and Trimpe obviously know who Slipstream is and what he looks like, they'd already worked with the character in Special Missions #5), and that the editors probably just had the letterer change the name from "Slipstream" to "Dogfight" at the last minute before going to press to satisfy some advertising clause in Marvel's licensing contract with Hasbro.
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04-11-2011, 02:44 PM | #15728 |
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I suppose there would be some benefit to it. The target glide range of 40 km (the working prototype could only glide for 5 km at best, IIRC) would allow the user to jump from a plane without the aircraft violating a country's sovereign airspace (12 nautical miles or roughly 22 kilometers from the coast). I don't know if that would outweigh the logistics requirements for its use (it doesn't look like anything a parachute rigger can maintain without extensive re-training) and the risks of actually using the system though (not to mention that once the user hits the ground, it becomes much harder to dispose of/camouflage than a conventional parachute). Besides, OTH (over-the-horizon) insertion using SEALs or SF or Recon Marines with inflatable boats parachuting just beyond the 12 nautical mile limit would probably be more practical if there are concerns about aircraft violating sovereign airspace.
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04-11-2011, 02:49 PM | #15729 |
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Jetpacks. My guys need a way of getting out as well as getting in.
What were those things that Dial-Tone, LJ and Chuckles used in a Special Missions to go from a neighboring building to the top of the Cobra Consulate?
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04-11-2011, 02:49 PM | #15730 |
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I suppose there would be some benefit to it. The target glide range of 40 km would allow the user to jump from a plane without the aircraft violating a country's sovereign airspace (12 nautical miles or roughly 22 kilometers from the coast). I don't know if that would outweigh the logistics requirements for its use (it doesn't look like anything a parachute rigger can maintain without extensive re-training) and the risks of actually using the system though (not to mention that once the user hits the ground, it becomes much harder to dispose of/camouflage than a conventional parachute).
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