Dude jumps without a parachute...? And lands in a net?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Because a paratrooper is a large clay pigeon under an even bigger piece of cloth that has a tendency to fail if perfurated by bullets.
The longer the soldier manages not to open the chute, the longer he is a veeeeeeeery hard target to hit and track.

Even with HALO jumps, the trooper still has to open the chute at a high enough altitude to arrest his fall before he hits the dirt, and that means that radar will detect it. Which means there are two (at least) potential solutions, find some method to make the parachute RCS as small or non-existent as possible, or create a different way to arrest the fall of the trooper before he hits the deck.

[August]

Interesting graphic related to the discussion:



http://www.combatreform.org/llparachute.htm