{"id":121774,"date":"2021-04-20T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/special-ops-soldier-with-jetpack-boards-ship-in-amazing-video"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T01:22:22","slug":"special-ops-soldier-with-jetpack-boards-ship-in-amazing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/special-ops-soldier-with-jetpack-boards-ship-in-amazing-video","title":{"rendered":"Special Ops Soldier With Jetpack Boards Ship in Amazing Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/special-ops-soldier-with-jetpack-boards-ship-in-amazing-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woah.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a new video released by jetpack maker Gravity Industries, a jetsuit-wearing special ops soldier from the Netherlands Maritime Special Operations Force can be seen boarding a ship \u2014 by flying there from a nearby pursuit vessel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a spectacular demonstration of Gravity Industries\u2019 flying technology. Rather than having to pursue and approach the ship in the tailing vessel, the jetpack-enhanced soldier simply takes to the skies and effortlessly lands on the deck of the ship \u2014 in a fraction of the time boarding would have taken otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Gravity has quickly emerged as one of the biggest players in the jetpack field over the last few years, offering its jetsuit technologies to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/paramedics-test-jetpack-daring-rescues\" class=\"\">first responders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/uk-military-iron-man-jet-suit-combat\" class=\"\">military forces<\/a> around the world. It has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/10\/22\/i-got-to-test-drive-a-440000-flying-gravity-jet-suit.html\" class=\"\">allowed journalists<\/a> to give the suit a test drive, albeit with safety tethers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah. In a new video released by jetpack maker Gravity Industries, a jetsuit-wearing special ops soldier from the Netherlands Maritime Special Operations Force can be seen boarding a ship \u2014 by flying there from a nearby pursuit vessel. It\u2019s a spectacular demonstration of Gravity Industries\u2019 flying technology. Rather than having to pursue and approach the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}