These Marines Using a Jet Suit Is Something You Need to See

Jet suits are real and they’re the Royal Marines newest military gadget.

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00:00this is britain-based gravity industries jet suit piloted by founder richard browning and recently

00:10he and his real-life iron man flight suit took to the skies in training exercises with britain's

00:15royal marines gravity industries spent three days performing exercises with the military

00:19organization in this video showing the culmination of those drills this is an operation where navy

00:24marines are training fast boarding exercises on the water the jet suit pilot is able to fly ahead

00:29of the boats and attach a ladder on the side of the vessel allowing the marines to easily make

00:33their way onto it a task which would otherwise require a helicopter and a technique called fast

00:38roping where personnel have to rappel down a rope one at a time a dangerous maneuver during real

00:43world scenarios a spokesperson for gravity industries had this to say about the jet suit's particular

00:48set of skills the vision with the jet suit is to provide extremely rapid access to any part of the

00:52target vessel instantly freeing up hands to bear a weapon and even retaining the capability to relocate

00:58on target or self-exfiltrate and if nothing else it's just plain awesome