New 'chutes for our paratroopers. Way back in the '70s when I first started skydiving, I had a
T-10 military parachute – a plain old round canopy, not much different from what paratroopers used in WWII. Those T-10s are still used by our paratroops today, but they have now started taking deliver of the
T-11 replacements (at right). These are not round canopies, but they're also not steerable canopies. Why they didn't switch to steerable canopies is a complete mystery to me. This seems sort of like switching from biplanes to Cessnas, when they could have gone straight to the F18s...
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