French Airdrop in Mali
It is great to see how the French are deploying airdrop in Mali. Even a sim stick of troops. I wonder if this was staged for the media as a show of force.
Note they are using up life ex troop chutes for stores. I first saw this at DGA in Tolouse back in 1995. The clusters got tangled up and a small number of the loads piled in. Big cheer from us Brits on the DZ!
Our top guys at Boscombe suggested we used all our old chutes up like this when we were running short in Afg. Great idea but could not get past the clowns in charge who would rather keep the wheels of our industry greased making new ones. The same crowd now whinging about redundancies and other cuts. Bit late after being so wastefull in the past.
The great thing about the French aproach is should one small cute fail you still had 3 or more left. no need to bring them back for packing (another saving).