3 men per Starfall puck. 20 pucks per starship. Deploy 2 platoons anywhere in the world no matter the radar and anti air coverage. Halo jump from pucks at 35,000 feet, pucks guide themselves to target and detonate. Complete the objective, secure the LZ for starship pickup. What is the probability we something like this in 20 years?
>>65227462>Deploy 2 platoons anywhere in the world no matter the radar and anti air coverageAre you saying that AA or radar will have trouble tracking or engaging something slowly falling in a parachute for several minutes?
>pay as much as the fly away cost of a modern jet to deploy 2 platoons
>>65227481>engaging something slowly falling in a parachuteHighAltitudeLowOpening
>>65227462How are you going to handle reentry?And is that flying starship as expendable mission, because that's more expensive.
>>65227664Was mostly refering to the capsule, unless your plan somehow includes exiting it at 3-400mph and having said troopers beaten senseless by tjmhe speed
>>65227462>secure the LZ for starship pickupOn which celestial body do you plan this operation?
>>65227462>100 men and Starship land>FPV drones pure kino in 30 minutes
>>65227462>Deploy 2 platoons anywhere in the world no matter the radar and anti air coverage>SIR WHAT IS THAT MASSIVE PLASMA THING ON OUR RADAR?
wow. two platoons.
>>65227722>muh drones>looks at IranHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>65227481I don't think the point of this is to drop it into a contested airspace, but maybe around it.>Use airplanes thenThings in orbit can loiter for years and drop in less than one hour when needed without requiring a landing strip. Although I would say that it is insanely expensive.Unless you intend to pull the US from its overseas bases.
>>65227950Iran what? No boots on the ground.
>>65227462>What is the probability we something like this in 20 years?id think low, 50 years sure. would be easier if you used Elysium drones instead of people and just have them loiter in space as long as you want and then drop them into whomevers asshole you wanted
>>65227462Why men? Just put in drones that can leave the gate on its own, have the Starfall be able to charge the drones (wireless charging onboard) with solar panels/battery so the drones have a way to return to the "base", and have the Starfall act as a gateway for network communication with the drones, Starshield constellation
>>65227462>What is the probability we something like this in 20 years?0
>>65227462HELL JUMPER HELL JUMPER WHERE YOU BEEN?!?
>>65227462>no matter the radar and anti air coverageMusk's retarded starship taxi would actually be really easy to shoot down.This suborbital hop would be similar. The entry is either unsurvivable for the men aboard or easy pickings for air defense.
>>65227950Israel has complete air superiority over lebanon
>>65227462inter-continental ballistic platoon?
>>65227462>Have to pack life support, gear, weapons for 3 men into a giant sardine can (x20 per launch)>Have to somehow convince all these dudes to climb into said windowless sardine cans and trust the ship and/or ground control to fly them across the planet for a risky airdropAbsolutely no reason not to use drones. Cheaper and less risky. And if you're just gonna bomb the fuckers from orbit, why the fuck would you need a handful of unsupported boots on the ground afterwards?
>>65227670terminal velocity is terminal velocity. The pucks having a larger surface area means it will move slower than the soldiers that eject from it. >>65228445Operation kidnap Kim Jung Un. The future of warfare is leader acquisition.
>>65228445No window budget
>>65227950Iran won, anon.
>>65228679yeah and in the upper atmosphere where the air is thinner they'll just get komarov'd
>>65228679>KidnappingUh-huh. And how is your crack team of space muhreens going to exfiltrate him? Ruck the fat gook all the way to the southern border?
>>65228768You don’t know what you are talking about mate
>>65228701i'm sure they did in your mind, now let's get you to bed.
>>65228679This is about the impact force of entering a slipstream while going hundreds of miles per hour, anon. You are basically hitting a wall when exiting the vehicle, going about twice the speed of someone jumping out of a C17
>>65228781Anon stop taking video games seriously. They are not real.
>>65227489>>pay as much as the fly away cost of a modern jet to deploy 2 platoonsWhat do you think the final bill on that Iranian SAR op was?
>>65229153Almost entirely clustered around the exfil cost (planes scuttled on the ground) which this wouldn't impact at all
>>65227807I don't need no instructions to know how to drop.
>>65228445>why the fuck would you need a handful of unsupported boots on the ground afterwards?Because scifi /tv/ has brainwashed generations of dweebs that boots on the ground is always required even when you have mile long star destroyers capable of leveling cities from space or tricobalt torps that can shred space and time. OP should round off his suggestion by requiring at least an Admiral or 3 star general to accompany each drop.
>>65227670>Was mostly refering to the capsuleWhy not have it Frisbee towards its target/
