Starship Troopers: Pentagon wants rocket-launched soldiers anywhere on earth in hours
Max Hauptman - Yesterday 4:23 PM
The Army’s 82nd Airborne Division has the Immediate Response Force, meant to be able to deploy anywhere, anytime, around the world in under a day. It has seen its fair share of action lately, from a New Year’s Eve deployment to Iraq, to the evacuation of Kabul, to a rapid deployment to Eastern Europe on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But how about an even faster quick reaction force, launched on rockets to secure an embassy in just an hour or so?
That’s one far-fetched proposal that the United States Transportation Command is studying, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through the Freedom of Information Act. It’s part of the Defense Department’s partnership with SpaceX, the private space exploration company.
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