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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
Me neither, but I know military as well as civilian radars can indeed pick parachutes up.
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Then there would be some advantage to using the net approach rather than a HALO jump since it would reduce the risk of radar detection of the parachutes.
That being said, there is still the problem of getting the nets there, particularly since the nets need to be at a set height above the ground in order to arrest the fall of the paratrooper quickly enough before he becomes 'Blood upon the risers'. Drones might help, a series of them might be able to take a net to the correct height, although whether they'd have the power to be able to keep the net taut enough as the trooper hits it in order to arrest the fall, alternatively they could catch the trooper at a higher altitude and then slow the rate of descent before impact. Of course, the problem with all that is radar and whether it'll pick up the drones and the net and thus negate the whole point of not using a chute.
Ultimately the better option would be some form of shock absorbing material that the trooper could deploy themselves, or a form of momentum reduction via miniature engines or something similar.
