GPS Guided Airdrops

Can your GPS guide a 2,000-Pound airdrop to within feet of its target from 25,000 feet up? The Air Force can. The Air Force now has the ability to equip troops with gear through nighttime airdrops using this new GPS guided system. The re-usable system allows the Air Force to drop 2,000-pound pallets out of planes at 25,000 feet and have them land within feet of where you want them.

“With this system we will be able to drop from up to 25,000 feet and many miles away from the drop zone with exacting precision to troops who may be in an isolated base camp up on the top of a mountain ledge,” North told Air Force Times on Friday. “To be able to deliver at night . . . within feet of exactly where you put the X on the ground is a wonderful thing.”

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