Video showing British Marines testing flying jetpacks in futuristic military operation

The British Royal Marines are testing a futuristic new way to board a ship: to fly there with a jetpack.

A new video uploaded by UK-based thruster maker Gravity Industries shows a Royal Marine wearing a jet suit landing on a nearby vessel after approaching it in a speedboat.

In an iteration of the exercise, The soldier lands on the ship and then pulls out a gun, a glimpse of how the military and police want to use the jetpacks for quick infiltration missions.

The sailor can be seen soaring effortlessly through the skies, reaching the top deck of a nearby ship in record time.

There are several exercises that can be seen in the video. In one, the Marine lands with the flight suit on the platform on the deck of an HMS Tamar and then unfolds a ladder so the rest of the troop can climb aboard.

The first take-off is observed was carried out from a small boat where the rest of the troops go. Quick take-off maneuver shows how advanced pilot training is in the use of this technology, which is confirmed when we see him land in the boat just as easily.

The images of these “Iron Man” exercises, which took place in the English Channel, show what the future of military operations would look like.

The news comes after the same company released a video showing a Dutch special operations soldier performing a similar maneuver.

After the tests, the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands declared that with these combinations “the military can reach places that were previously virtually inaccessible ”and, therefore, the combination could offer“ new tactical deployment options ”and“ new possibilities for civilian emergency services ”.

The Gravity jet suit uses four-arm and rear jet engines to produce over 1,000 horsepower of thrust. Thanks to the design, the wearer can adjust their speed and trajectory by changing the position of their arms.

These flying suits can reach speeds of about 135 kilometers per hour and have a range of more than 10 minutes, so until now they could only be used for short and carefully planned missions.

The same suit was worn by Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning in 2019, who broke his own world speed record by hitting a hair at over 136.7 kilometers per hour while flying over Brighton Pier in England.

Gravity has also worked with UK ambulance services to enable paramedics to reach remote areas in record time.

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