Unlike conventional cargo parachute drop systems that use gravity to slowly drop bundles from the back of an aircraft at airspeeds of up to 150 knots, the Extracted High-Low Speed Container ...

Rostec added that multiple Juncker-DG-250s can be dropped at once, with a lead parachute guiding the others downwards. Yevtushenko added that Technodinamika has obtained a patent for an ‘all-purpose ...

U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground is home to all manner of parachute testing, with spacious and instrumented ranges large enough to accommodate even the world’s largest cargo parachutes.

The U.S. Army Special Operation Command, or USASOC, is joining that society with its new cargo parachute systems. With the defense budget shrinking, USASOC is trying to save every penny it can.

A cargo drop using high-velocity parachutes by a United Arab Emirates C-17 during Mobility Guardian 2019. Photo by Senior Airman Charles Fultz.

This is no different for Everette Andrews, a 92-year-old World War II and Korean War veteran, and a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is getting ready to donate a G-1 Cargo Parachute, which he ...