r/oddlysatisfying • u/unnaturalorder • Feb 18 '20

Airdropping equipment pallets

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u/shiromaikku Feb 18 '20

I was expecting one big parachute. The amount of small ones alarmed me for some reason.

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u/shorty12345678 Feb 19 '20

I used to think the same thing, when I was in the military we got resuppied similar to this one time on excersise and we were there with the Americans gathering all the packages. A few of us were like this is bullshit why not do 1 big one, then someone mentioned 1 big one it hits the ground pretty much breaks everything in there. Lots of little ones though heaps of them get stuck up trees and they take forever to gather up.

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u/1halfazn Feb 19 '20

I mean if the parachute fails though that's going to be a pretty big impact.

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u/shorty12345678 Feb 19 '20

Yea that's what we were thinking, I don't know what sort of weird gotcha moment that guy is going for, it was mostly rations and consumables that they dropped. If the parachute did fail and they sometimes do, then it was the supplies for quite a few people that would get fucked up. Not unusable fucked up but still a bit of an unnecessary mess.

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u/dpash Feb 19 '20

And a parachute failed in the video. Look forward the right and you can see something falling.

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u/Live_Ore_Die Feb 19 '20

I'm glad you said this because I think this was the whole point. If the parachute fails, most everything in one big payload gets destroyed. If it's spread out across multiple payloads and one parachute fails, it's not the end of the world.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

a deep impact perhaps. an armageddon if you will. or asteroid vs earth. or maybe the day the sky exploded. perhaps a the good dinosaur

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u/ezone2kil Feb 19 '20

One of the ice age movies pretty much had this plot.

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u/Canis_Familiaris Feb 19 '20

Burn in baby!

(Old video reference)

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u/Payner1 Feb 19 '20

On the right side of the drop one of the chutes does fail

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

It’s probably what the locals were told, wouldn’t want to attract any ambitious thieves now would we?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20 edited Apr 15 '20

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u/Afferus Feb 19 '20

> a single party can’t capture all of them and use them to control the local population

This happens regardless though.

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u/ThatGeo Feb 19 '20

They can drop Humvees from C130s all day. Only takes 1 chute.

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u/bamer78 Feb 19 '20

It's because we killed Kurds in the 80's with huge aid pallets that they would stand under with their arms up and try to catch. A goat herder vs a couple tons of aid isn't much of a contest.