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Corrections JPADS is an autonomous GPS-denied system. It uses Terrain Relative Navigation to avoid enemy jamming of GPS signals and relies on onboard imagery to land, not GPS

More details please

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It would be nice to know:

  • What glide slope (or what forward and vertical speeds) ?
  • does it do a landing flare to reduce landing shock (or like RAD, does it use a final 'round chute')?
  • what wing area/size canopy do the 4 increments use ?
  • are the canopies/decelerators packed and reused, or just destroyed after use ?
  • is there a max drop altitude eg imposed by battery capacity ?
  • any other guided airdrop system used by the US ?
    • [1] mentions Mega-Fly and Firefly.
    • Was Onyx deployed ?
  • is there anything similar used by non-US military ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:53, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Was RAD (using both steerable, and round) a precursor

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[2] says "The Rapid Aerial Delivery technique, also known as the ‘Screamer’, produced by Strong Enterprises, utilizes a small steerable ram-air drogue (RAD) parachute to drop the cargo at a 100mph (44.7 m/sec) rate of descend, navigating to a predetermined location where the main conventional parachute is deployed for the final descent." - Rod57 (talk) 13:10, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]