Flying Soldiers are Coming!

wwkirk

Divine
French inventor soars above Champs-Élysées on flyboard at Paris parade
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A French inventor and entrepreneur on Sunday soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders.


Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the annual Bastille Day parade.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Yeah, it does leave the rider very exposed. Maybe a future model will have a riot like shield. :ohmy8:

Or even some kind of steel underwear at least. The first things a bullet might hit on it's way up are areas I don't even want to contemplate being injured in
 
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nivek

As Above So Below
 

Standingstones

Celestial
It’s too bad that the first order of business would be to use the flying device in a military application. I’m sure this is the only way a flying platform would have gotten money, but to engineer such a thing.
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
Who's crazy enough to want to be flying soldier?

Everybody else will hide behind something and shoot at you, clearly siluethed against sky.
 
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