For Infanteer and all interested:
And as to us getting them take the following date and add 10 or 20 years.
Full article:
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5502
"We were looking for a parachute that will lower the rate of descent and lessen the impact with the hopes and expectations that this would result in a reduction in injuries,"
It is a highly modified cross-shaped canopy with an inflated diameter 14 percent greater than that of the T-10, with 28 percent more surface area.
The 14-percent weight increase earns jumpers a 25-percent reduction in rate of descent.
The T-10 and ATPS are mass tactical parachute canopies, meaning they are not steerable. Because these are not steerable, distribution is managed by exit sequences and timing, aircraft altitude and speed, wind and canopy drift characteristics, Jones said.
And as to us getting them take the following date and add 10 or 20 years.
The ATPS is being tested at Yuma Proving Grounds in Yuma, Ariz., and will be fielded between 2005 and 2006.
Full article:
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5502