From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Rigged Banshee Drivers
Date:	Thu, 15 Jun 1995 11:50:29 +0200

>Yeah, but there's a difference between pallets of supplies and flesh and
>bone. I've seen C-130s do the trick your talking about, and those pallets
>hit HARD. I came to think that the parachute attached to the pallets wasn't to
>slow them down, but to keep them from tumbling by providing drag when they hit
>the ground.

The U.S. Marines did tests like dropping LAV-25s out of the back of a C-130,
I believe. I know for sure Russian paratroops drop similar vehicles by
rocket-parachute-thingies (normal parachute keeps the rate of descent down,
and a few meters above the ground a rocket booster cuts in to slow you down
much more). OK, that's not LAPES, but those ASU-85 _are_ (were?) dropped
with crew in them...


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