Thread by @TrentTelenko

This naval boarding exercise is the 'gust front' of optionally crewed drone swarm boarding actions.

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1317172531573424135

While the jet suit in that exercise was not the best. There are others which may be far better for the human.

This Bastille Day demonstration made clear you can fly on a drone-like platform with and assault rifle.

And if you are thinking a Marvel comic Green Goblin's goblin glider, you would not be wrong.

But there is no reason that the Bastille Day Flyboard couldn't be remotely operated after delivering it's armed crewman.

And yes, even an armed flying boarder would face issues with ship mounted, crew served, automatic weapons.

Consider, however, jet pack boarding parties supported by a swarm of Turkish Songar drones that arrive around the ship before the crewed flyboards

And there have been recent boarding actions where optionally crewed Drone Swarm boarding actions are justified.

jewishpolicycenter.org/2010/06/02/wha…

And if you are expecting lots of small arms resistance.

You lead with these:

Or these before the crewmen land on the suspect vessel.

The key thing to remember here is the engineering maxim that what is near impossible for the 1st generation of engineers is merely difficult for the 3nd and is easy for the 3rd.

And the electronic drone tech generation interval for the electronics underlaying this is 18 months.

Grrr...that was supposed to be:

"...what is near impossible for the 1st generation of engineers is merely difficult for the _2nd_ and is easy for the 3rd."

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