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T-11 Advanced Tactical Parachute System

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New Chute Means ‘Softer’ Landing for Paratroopers

Today’s soldiers are weighed down with a ton of gear, and the Army wanted a new parachute that could carry a paratrooper with a total jump weight of 400 lb. Last year, the service approved low-rate initial production for the new parachute, called the T-11 Advanced Tactical Parachute System; the 75th Ranger Regiment is supposed to be the first unit equipped this year.

Fred Coppola, the army’s deputy product manager for clothing and individual equipment, told me last year that the new chute would slow the rate of descent for a jumper weighing 385 lb to around 19 feet per second, versus the 22 feet per second of the old T-10. It’s the equivalent of jumping from a five-foot-high platform instead of an eight-foot jump — a difference that should save a lot of knees.

The new chute also has a lower oscillation rate (the jumper swings less from side to side on the way down), and the T-11 also has a lower “opening shock” rate: the canopy opens more slowly, so the jumper does not experience a heavy jerk when the thing finally opens.

Video of the new T-11
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There is a related thread on here. Great video though.
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Sweet video!

First off...there is no fuckin' way you could actually NEED all that shit they make them carry!

Second...it opens sooooo slowly, I wonder how it would do at combat altitudes, like 500'?
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Slowpoke wrote:Sweet video!

First off...there is no fuckin' way you could actually NEED all that shit they make them carry!

Second...it opens sooooo slowly, I wonder how it would do at combat altitudes, like 500'?
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Slowpoke wrote:Sweet video!
First off...there is no fuckin' way you could actually NEED all that shit they make them carry!
So you were never in a '3' shop that came up with individual trooper load and NEVER used a scale to check it?

Every time I read something like this, account of the D-Day drop comes to mind..... troops loading the C47's were carry so much gear they had to be lifted on board the planes since they couldn't climb in on their own.
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Actually, no. In RVN our basic load ran about 65 lbs. and then we could add any thing we wanted to hump. Mine was about 75 lbs. most of the time.
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400lbs....hmmmm......

Shit thats like me with Vee strapped to my ankle....plus a ruck....

Into Panama...we kinda like that "pop" when the chute opened...right before the splat!

at least they are trying....
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