Robot parachutists hit the mark

Two US Marine Corps' skydivers made their first combat zone landing earlier this year in a remote hot spot in Iraq's Al Anbar Province. The landings were significant enough to go down in history but there was little fanfare as the aim of the exercise was to supply remote troops in a combat zone - the Sherpas, as this robot parachure controller is known, each rode a pallet of rations to the drop zone, controlling their chute from two miles high to within 200 metres of their target.

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