Military truck drop

fman5k · 4 days

Landed right on my fucking azaleas

baruckus · 4 days

Dumb question, are the keys in trucks?

clayt0n · 4 days

The russians air dropped BMDs and other IFVs.

They first dropped them unmanned, but since it took to long to locate the vehicle by the airborne troops ,like the VDV, they started to drop them MANNED :D

They used rockets beneath the parachute to drop the fall speed to non lethal just before impact.

Click HERE for a video of it. [military.com]

Look at the flips after leaving the plane :D

I'm asking myself if someone of them unbelted themselves just to enjoy the view from an opened hatch :D (downing 100grams of vodka and emptying two ~~clips~~ mags of ak74 rounds, of course ;-) )

guns_of_navarone · 4 days

Lemme fucking get this straight. I couldn't walk from my hooch to the latrine in Iraq without a pair of fucking safety glasses on. But an entire goddamn platoon can just sit there and chill at like, 10,000 feet in the air while many, many tons of vehicle violently flies past them and out into the void?

FUCK

edit: I love that half the responses to this have been PT belt jokes, fuck me running

GreyCastle · 4 days

I hope they kill Megatron.

Taken4 · 4 days

Video showing this.

TheZbeast · 4 days

Imagine the rush of being inside one of those while launching.

Testiclaw · 4 days

YOU GET A TRUCK!

AND YOU GET A TRUCK! AND YOU! AND YOU! YOU ALL GET A TRUCK!

gringobachatero · 4 days

Anybody know the mechanism that causes the initial "tug" on the line that starts the process?

TrixiDelite · 4 days

Another stupid question: how do they know they'll land upright?

Kaelindis · 4 days

I wish I was present for the first time something like this was done. "Now let me get this straight, you're asking me to just drop a bunch of hummers out of a plane?" "Yeah, it's okay. We have science. And parachutes."

larrycatz · 4 days

If you sat in one with your seat belt on would you be okay?

edit: It would be great to hide in one and scare the shit out of the dudes on the ground when they get in

young_ian124 · 4 days

Shit, wouldn't want to be in front of one of those as they....slide out of the carrier?

Dickfore · 4 days

The military's snarky answer to the taliban's jihad jeeps.

thebrettster · 4 days

Poor 463L Pallets.

stuffingisawesome · 4 days

I half expected to see the trucks go followed by a soldier who accidently got his foot caught on the tether.

jevmorgan · 4 days

That plane is like a clown car.

artacuno53 · 4 days

Allow me to speak for everyone when I say AWESOME

katarn22 · 4 days

Someone should make an ABORT THREAD gif out of this.

Translated-to-Sci-Fi · 4 days

The sadistic bastards put me on the drop.

Let me tell you, I'd programed those machines since they their software was just basic pattern-matching and heuristic filtering.

I suppose I knew what they'd be used for. Traltech mainly makes 'bots for caring for the elderly, but I'd done my research and I'd followed the trail of parent companies to the innocuously-named Global Robotics Corp. Warmongers and murders R us, basically.

So here I am, watching my creations eject from the drop-ship over the planet Milsum. Unfortunately for the inhabitants, their planet is rich in the minerals we need.

Though it's outside my area of expertise, I have procured and studied the data on physical assets and their prices, and I have come to a very disturbing conclusion.

Moving to the edge of the cargo bay, I can watch the droids below, as they fall. They extend their limbs to arrest their fall exactly as planned, retros fire in the 5,000-7,000 ft range exactly as planned, chutes deploy in the final ascent like strangely beautiful off-white blooms.

After so many worlds stripped and raped, I sometimes wonder what the droids look like to their primitive victims. Falling from the sky in a trail of fire: surely they must look like agents of god: angels?

Poor bastards. I guess for them God is a mysteriously sadistic and cruel master.

crumbledstone · 4 days

I thought it was going to be a toy truck. This is much better.

bgb111 · 4 days

The tensile strength on those lines must be massive.

Dougdahead · 4 days

I was a 92r in the army (parachute rigger). I can attest this is probably the funnest part of the job. If I remember right they use 2 G11 cargo chutes for each Humvee. On I think 12' aluminum platforms to reduce weight. Each of the G11 chutes weighs 250 pounds apiece packed and are 100ft in diameter when fully deployed. sigh I miss this sort of stuff

GoogleItFirst · 4 days

How to fly a tank

mrhelton · 4 days

damn I wanted that to be a looping gif so bad

benhop · 4 days

I remember this from Operation Dumbo Drop.

jumpingbeaner · 4 days

Hey this is my job :)

NeuhausNeuhaus · 4 days

More or less impressive than Operation Dumbo Drop?

bmontoya87 · 4 days

they're heavy sequential platforms and they're a pain in the ass to rig.

xtreme33 · 4 days

I was in the 82nd (313) for a while. Miss that shit.

andrewsmith1986 · 4 days

Watch your feet.

"Mind the gap"

Pillagerguy · 4 days

Those trucks probably have a 5 minute walk between them.

webby_mc_webberson · 4 days

Shocking lack of DANGER signs for something that is so apparently dangerous.

/showingmyage

dubuscus · 4 days

I can't imagine what its like being an inch to close to one of those trucks

wiltedbouquet · 4 days

Military tech is a trip sometimes. Simultaneously elegant and crude. If you put a blue cast over this video, it would look like a sci-fi movie that someone like James Cameron or Ridley Scote would make.

Sylvanaz · 4 days

Am I do only one who found this GIF hilarious ?

skyraider17 · 4 days

And that's one of the reasons I want to fly the C-17.

TheRealSgtPepper · 4 days

Operation Dumbo Drop

Ace4929 · 4 days

If the military put this kind of stuff in their ads then they would see a sharp rise in volunteers.

EllKayBee · 4 days

It's really exciting to be on the cargo ramp during a drop like that :) One minute the pallet is there, next moment whoosh almost instant acceleration to the aircraft's speed (an RAF C130 Hercules flying at around 100kt) - guess that's one of the reasons I never got into video games as a teenager, I was having too much fun as an Air Cadet!

black-coffee · 4 days

This is my job in the AF. It is every bit as awesome and fun as it looks.

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