Comments on: U.S. military adds Blue Origin to its point-to-point space cargo development program https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 03:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/#comment-1268369 Sun, 02 Jan 2022 03:31:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81493#comment-1268369 A huge one way second stage built for soft landings. Just enough engine and fuel to bring it in safe.
Maybe solid fuel engines like the Russians use. Parachutes for slowdown.
Pack the solders in like sailors in a sub. Flat on their back with just enough room to turn over. Gear packed in even tighter.

]]> By: john hare https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/#comment-1266969 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:38:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81493#comment-1266969 Starship Troopers. Read the book, cringed the movie.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/#comment-1266864 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:38:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81493#comment-1266864 Hat’s off to Bob Heinlein

https://www.christianbook.com/starship-troopers-robert-heinlein/9780441014101/pd/014104?en=bing-pla&event=SHOP&kw=fiction-0-20%7C014104&p=1179517&dv=c&msclkid=ee510b2ff30a14a94fe96ae17a037f11&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping%20Main&utm_term=4580565442033017&utm_content=s-fiction

Which I first read, interesting enough, while at Jump School at Fort Benning

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/#comment-1266837 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:44:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81493#comment-1266837 You don’t need Starship itself- just an upper stage that can shove a biconic shell that covers a pallet with tanks/troops that parachute once subsonic. The spent aeroshell as a boat, with men in those jet wing suits dropping. Lots of load-outs possible. One a Daisy Cutter.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/u-s-military-adds-blue-origin-to-its-point-to-point-space-cargo-development-program/#comment-1266662 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:06:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81493#comment-1266662 I have this picture of a squad of riflemen from the 82nd Airborne staggering out of a smoking tin can into enemy fire in some hellhole. Where’s Slim Pickens when you need him?

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