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The future of flying soldiers just took one more turbine-assisted leap towards becoming a reality — maybe. In late July, Royal Marine reservist turned inventor Richard Browning conducted a short ...

A video from last spring—depicting a Royal Marine using a jetpack to launch himself from a moving boat to land on a nearby patrol boat—started to spread like wildfire across social media this ...

Royal Navy (@RoyalNavy) July 30, 2019 The jetpack had been tested on land, but Browning wanted to test whether it could be used on moving ships. A small landing and launch pad was set up on the ...

But it comes five months after the British Royal Navy announced it would test jet packs for swarming and boarding ships, and U.S. Special Operations Command said it would evaluate a jetpack that ...

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Currently, JetPack is refining a new JB12 design with a longer flight time under a contract with the US Navy.

Developers of the Gravity Jetpack are working with the British military to one day use the technology to board ships, for rescue operations or to deliver life-saving medical supplies.

US-based Jetpack Aviation is the other main contender ... It came, Mayman says, “out of a research contract with the US Navy Seals [for] something you can just jump on and fly.” ...