Not anymore. Out of both consoles, about two thirds are PS5 in the UK.

If this is primarily for ship boarding, how you gonna be the guy on the ground?

A drone can’t land on a ship and start clearing room to room can it?

So many didn’t read the article. Its for ship boarding. You land and transition to your carried rifle and start clearing the ship in the traditional manner.

https://youtu.be/WNDBrSxg3tE?si=iJ_TsC7Sd9CIhNB6

The tracked auto pistol is for the brief period where your coming in to land and your hands are occupied with the jet system. (Should be noted the pistol system in the linked video is a very early and very crude prototype)

If you read the article you would know that ship to ship interdiction is the planned use scenario. Fly from one ship to another that your boarding and the troops drop off and transition to using a rifle and go about ship clearing in the traditional manner. In doing so the troops will be airborne for 2-3 mins max with the only danger being that your vulnerable approaching the ship and on landing. This brief period is where the tracking auto pistol comes in.

To me these jetpacks are no more vulnerable that traditional ship to ship transitions. You can still be shot the fuck up when approaching the ship in a RIB to board the ship via a rope ladder or rappelling from a helicopter. The disadvantage of using both those methods is you’re dropping those troops off or having them board in a single location, unless you use another helicopters or RIB’s but even then your only increasing your insertion points by one.

Using jetpacks you can have all your troops land simultaneously anywhere on the ship.

Yup. The Royal Marines that are developing the idea, and the company’s founder is a former Royal Marines reservist. But the Glock attachment is a US Nazy Joint Prototyping and Experimentation Maritime development. It seems like everyone is looking at this as a great tool for ship to ship interdiction and boarding.

Rather than having to use a slow rigid inflatable boat and climb into the ship with a rope ladder, or transfer with a helicopter that can only effectively drop all your troops in one location, you use these to individually drop your troops off in precise locations around the ship.

Basically this but with jetpacks.