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Video: Skydivers intercept gliders midair. The low cost fighter jet solution for air forces in financial crisis?

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The following video shows what (theoretically) could be achieved by future paratroopers equipped with proper wingsuits. Five wingsuit skydivers joined up with and maintained formation with two gliders over Austria, in the last Red Bull sponsored adventure. The team literally intercepted at roughly 12,000 feet two aerobatic LET L-13 Blanik gliders (with the leader flying [...]

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