Special Operations Technologies
SOTECH 2.4, p. 4

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Capewell Components Inc., South Windsor, CT, has licensed from the U.S. Army, a lightweight, retractable grappling hook for boarding boats and scaling walls and buildings. The device, which Capewell plans to bring to market later this year, offers a material edge to first-responders and special operations soldiers.

The Individual Protection Directorate and the Army Natick Soldier Center originally designed, developed and tested the hook as part of its mission to provide warfighters with high-quality, safe, and easily portable equipment. The hook, which folds up into a compact, portable cube weighing less than 1.5 pounds, can support 1,608 pounds, or six 268-pound men, when deployed.

A smaller hook is also a safer hook - it doesn't get hung up accidentally while being carried; it can be thrown farther, which offers greater mobility in scaling obstacles; and it affords greater distance in clearing hazards.

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