May 222020
Cool? Undeniably.
Certainly one of the more interesting ways to get from one boat to another. What you’d do once you got to that second boat isn’t entirely clear, as you’d be weighed down with a hundred pounds of stuff of no immediately apparent practical value on board a vessel.
Another ten years of development and these systems will likely have some sort of carbon fiber powered exoskeleton that takes all the load, so the pilot doesn’t have to have Schwarzenegger-arms. Make ’em so the propulsion systems pop right off when you land, and you’re left with a Navy SEAL with power armor. That would seem to have a few applications…