Jet Pack Troopers by World War Two

After seeing this http://chainsawsuit.com/comics/20091006.gif I do have to admit Allied and Axis Jet/Jumptroopers would be pretty cool to see...If the Rangers had Jet Packs at Normandy...if Japanese and American Marines used them to stage boarding raids on opposing ships...well, you get the picture. How can we make this possible?
 
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Handwaving all the various engineering problems, which are legion, jetpacks are still slow and a flying infantryman could best be described as skeet

No rational military would let them get beyond the testing stage when the problems of bulk, reliability and limited range, never-mind expense, start appearing
 
Well, granted something like Rockteer is definitely unfeasible, but I do wonder about the application of a One-Use, Short range model that would allow Special Forces to scale a wall or cliff before discarding.
 
Well, granted something like Rockteer is definitely unfeasible, but I do wonder about the application of a One-Use, Short range model that would allow Special Forces to scale a wall or cliff before discarding.
Still technically unfeasible, we can't come up with something today that's enough of an improvement over ropes and grapples to justify the thing

The POD you'd need to get the required tech by 1945 would butterfly WWII as we know it
 
Still technically unfeasible, we can't come up with something today that's enough of an improvement over ropes and grapples to justify the thing
The POD you'd need to get the required tech by 1945 would butterfly WWII as we know it

What about the Himmelsstürmer? They qualify for the given technical specifics (if they aren't a hoax):

During World War II, Germany conducted late-war experiments by strapping two wearable shortened Schmidt pulse jet tubes of low thrust to the body of a pilot. The working principle was the same as the Argus As 014 pulse jet that powered the Fieseler Fi 103 flying bomb (more popularly known as the V-1 or buzz bomb), though the size was much smaller.

The device was called a Himmelstürmer ("sky stormer") and operated as follows: when the flier ignited both engines simultaneously the tubes began to pulse modulate. The angled rear tube strapped to the flier's back provided both lift and forward thrust while the chest-mounted deflector tube of lower thrust maintained a constant upward thrust. This lifted the flier up and forward. By opening the throttle to the rear tube, calculated "jumps" could be made of up to 60 metres (180 ft) at low altitudes (under 50 ft, 15 m). The tubes consumed very little fuel, but not much payload could be carried along either.

The device was intended to aid German engineer units to cross minefields, barbed wire obstacles, and bridgeless waters. The device was never intended for troop use.

The Himmelstürmer, never operated long enough to get extremely hot, and both tubes were angled away from the body of the flier. In operation the thrust difference between pulse tubes acted as a push/pull/lift system. Flight time for jumps was measured in seconds, with no lengthy descent time as altitude was minimal. As soon as the throttle was disengaged the device was shut off, a very simple operation, and there was no report of any casualties.
 

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The Himmelstürmer was designed for one purpose: To make Nazi soldiers in their engineering corps to jump over enemy defenses, like minefields, barbed wire, or trenches, as well as rivers, or any other large natural obstacle. It had two components. The main pulse engine—on the back—pushed up and forward. A second pulse engine on the front pushed only up.
The engineer throttled the back engine to make him jump over greater or shorter distances. It consumed very little fuel, never ran hot, and didn't require special clothing because it wasn't designed to run for long period of times. All while achieving 180 feet jumps at an altitude of 50 feet. Impressive. Fortunately, like all their secret super-weapons, it arrived late in the war.
 
What about the Himmelsstürmer? They qualify for the given technical specifics (if they aren't a hoax):

During World War II, Germany conducted late-war experiments by strapping two wearable shortened Schmidt pulse jet tubes of low thrust to the body of a pilot. The working principle was the same as the Argus As 014 pulse jet that powered the Fieseler Fi 103 flying bomb (more popularly known as the V-1 or buzz bomb), though the size was much smaller.

The device was called a Himmelstürmer ("sky stormer") and operated as follows: when the flier ignited both engines simultaneously the tubes began to pulse modulate. The angled rear tube strapped to the flier's back provided both lift and forward thrust while the chest-mounted deflector tube of lower thrust maintained a constant upward thrust. This lifted the flier up and forward. By opening the throttle to the rear tube, calculated "jumps" could be made of up to 60 metres (180 ft) at low altitudes (under 50 ft, 15 m). The tubes consumed very little fuel, but not much payload could be carried along either.

The device was intended to aid German engineer units to cross minefields, barbed wire obstacles, and bridgeless waters. The device was never intended for troop use.

The Himmelstürmer, never operated long enough to get extremely hot, and both tubes were angled away from the body of the flier. In operation the thrust difference between pulse tubes acted as a push/pull/lift system. Flight time for jumps was measured in seconds, with no lengthy descent time as altitude was minimal. As soon as the throttle was disengaged the device was shut off, a very simple operation, and there was no report of any casualties.
Still were never issued or even got beyond early testing by 1945

The US took one after the war and could not find a test pilot crazy enough to test the thing (and they had some crazy test pilots), they did tethered tests and deemed the thing unsafe (the US, and pretty much any country but Imperial Japan had much stricter safety standards than Nazi Germany), a decade plus of later work still could not produce something satisfactory

Never mind the issue that using the thing on a battlefield would be suicide

No, it's a nice gadget, but it would never be adopted, even for special forces work
 
Wait so the Himmlersturmer is a real thing? I thought he was joking.

the Himmelstürmer concept was a REAL
the Wehrmacht oder R&D on that, but they never build a Prototype or made a test flight.
in fact the program was terminated early, do to capitulation and end of World war II.

All picture about the flying Himmelstürmer hardware in Internet are FAKE

The US military look also in Jetpack for Military use during Coldwar
there conclusion to many disadvantage like:
too short fly time do little fuel tank, the pilot had to steer and shot enemies on same time...
 
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