Talk:Joint Precision Airdrop System

Corrections JPADS is an autonomous GPS-denied system. It uses Terrain Relative Navigation to avoid enemy jamming of GPS signals and relies on onboard imagery to land, not GPS

More details please
It would be nice to know:
 * What glide slope (or what forward and vertical speeds) ?
 * does it do a landing flare to reduce landing shock (or like RAD, does it use a final 'round chute')?
 * what wing area/size canopy do the 4 increments use ?
 * are the canopies/decelerators packed and reused, or just destroyed after use ?
 * is there a max drop altitude eg imposed by battery capacity ?
 * any other guided airdrop system used by the US ?
 * mentions Mega-Fly and Firefly.
 * Was Onyx deployed ?
 * is there anything similar used by non-US military ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:53, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Was RAD (using both steerable, and round) a precursor
says "The Rapid Aerial Delivery technique, also known as the ‘Screamer’, produced by Strong Enterprises, utilizes a small steerable ram-air drogue (RAD) parachute to drop the cargo at a 100mph (44.7 m/sec) rate of descend, navigating to a predetermined location where the main conventional parachute is deployed for the final descent." - Rod57 (talk) 13:10, 9 October 2018 (UTC)