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Same device being using in a training exercise by a civilian mountain rescue team in the UK.

I suppose it could be useful, but not being able to evacuate someone certainly limits what it can do. In the video they still needed a helicopter for the actual rescue part.

For search drones are cheaper, scale better, and are safer for mountain rescue staff. This may make sense for whatever cross-section exists for remote mobile first aid where a helicopter is unavailable, and you roughly know where they are (due to limited fuel and the risk of the jetpack itself getting stranded).

If it can be expanded to hold two people this could be incredible for rescue.

I believe it's being targeted at rapid medical response.

In the same way paramedics arrive on a motorbike or in a car, prior to the ambulance and subsequent patient transport.

It is very common for SAR to send EMTs in on foot to start initial stabilization and lifesaving procedures before a helicopter or ambulance is able to arrive. Check out these old SAR reports- they're mostly on-foot, not by ambulance. https://www.nps.gov/zion/blogs/sarblog.htm

You wouldn't use this for evac- you wouldn't be able to stabilize a neck or spine with this.

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