Quadibloc wrote:
On Jan 31, 12:26 am, Pat Flannery wrote:

Just what we need - the space equivalent of Operation Market Garden.

On which the movie "A Bridge Too Far" was based.

In that PDF, they show the Hot Eagle being recovered by a C-141 that
grabs onto a helium filled kite it floats above it.
This is fine, but if you can pick it up from enemy territory via a
C-141, you could also have put your thirteen Marines in via a C-141,
rather than shooting them through space.
They've run into a problem like this with operational use of the V-22
Osprey in Iraq.
It indeed can get the troops into enemy territory fast...so fast that it
can't be escorted by helicopters, as it will outrun them.
So you pre-position the helicopters, then send in the Osprey's with the
troops. Troops you could have just carried in via helicopters, rather
than using the V-22's. :-D.