Tanks? Drones? What are you talking about anon, we're launching to Ukraine in 15 minutes! Hurry up!
>>653769871200 men leapfrog space and continents in half a hour! 10 such machines can land a division of rocket-men in the heart of Russia!
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>>65377008>B-70 cargo droppingWe live in the worst fucking timeline.
>>65376987Will SpaceX do something like this in the future?
>>65377138Imagine Starship full of ATACMS bombletscapable of saturating a circle 4km in diameter
>>65377138Elon said they will. So possibly, but years late.
I await the High Def. photos of incinerated VDV corpses in a gay music video when the Russians actually try this nonsense in real life.
>>65377138It's already possible, same with the jetpack, the real question is if it's a good idea to risk losing a spacecraft and it's cargo to a SAM battery
>>65377439With heavy lift it would be easy to send literal hundreds of tons of jammers, chaff, and countermeasures ahead of a landing. Plus SEAD as usual.
>>65377008>Wheeeeeee!
>>65376987I NEED to be the first airborne rocket paratrooper.>but anon what about 'dem S-400s? That's why we all bail out of the SpaceX BFRs at 60,000 feet anon! We're going to meatwave Moscow, American style!
>>65377001>>65377008Cargo sliding into combat....I played enough of those unplayable counterstrike levels to pass on that idea.
>>65377439>Send giga-SEAD Starship first>Send giga-saturation Starship next>Send troop Starship lastYeah
>>65377439>risk losing a spacecraft and it's cargo to a Shaheed drone after landing Fixed for you
>>65378828It's more of the Battlefield thing.
>>65377008>Rocket pack deployment>"Rockets in the sky!"
>>65377439I think it's kind of missing the point to try using these as combat dropships, 1000 dudes is enough that you don't need to drop them anywhere near the front to be useful. They don't need to be used for combat at all, if launching them doesn't consume half the world's supply of fuel every time just the ability to move the equivalent payload of an entire cargo ship across the ocean in 30 minutes alone is enough to make them the most powerful logistics tool on earth. Imagine WWII but instead of massive convoys taking weeks to travel you just have a couple of these fat fucks moving more cargo in a week than the entire US Liberty Ship fleet at their height.
>>65377001Can't wait to spaceborne mobility and maneuver ops in... mid-africa.
>>65380838Unfortunately for this thing, the entire reason we use ships instead of airplanes to move everything is because the cost efficiency of shipping beats out every other alternative if time isn't a factor, and a transcontinental rocket ship is just an even less efficient airplane in this regard. Unless there is a pressing need to have stuff delivered to the rear of the operating area in an hour instead of a day, aircraft do the same job cheaper.I do also wonder how far away from the front you actually have to land these things to be safe from interception in a real war. A spacecraft capable of lugging 1000 men and their gear along for a suborbital hop is going to cost a fucking lot of money, and a fraction of that money is going to get you a pretty capable mid course interceptor with very long legs.
>>65377138>>65376987>>65377001>>65377008Reminder those projects were imagined long before they realize computers and electronics would make it ridiculously simple and cost-efficient to shot them down, as well as replace pilots.If I see any military use for Reusable rocket, it's as a first stage for low-cost ICBM.Limited to a ballistic trajectory but without a need to carry more than terminal guidance system, hypothetically cheaper than any anti-missiles.
>>65377008>>65380694>jetpackAnd the mistake of jetpacks is thinking of the user as a pilot instead of cargo.We now possess the technology, imagine a squad of soldiers calling for airlift, dozens of multipurpose airlift-drones automatically fly and land right next to them, the soldiers attach their harness and a minute later they fly away.Weight and range is still a bit of a problem for modern drones, plus, since offensive drones come with the package, you can't really use this in a contested area.
>>65383363weeeeeeeeee
>>65377138Yes, US army is already looking into the idea of using starship (or similar ship) to delivery 100ton of cargo anywhere on the planet within 1 hour.
>>65384964For an AI pic, this is quite good
>>65383363lacks the big dick energy of standing on top of the propeler
>>65388517also dystopian future police segways.
