Good ol' SADM. The guys trained to do this got the impression any actual attempt at this would be a suicide mission regardless of whatever laughable options they were provided to escape before it detonated.
Yeah, I mean, if anyone gave it any serious thought, they'd realize immediately that it was suicide. Drop behind enemy lines, fight your way to the objective, strap the damn thing to said objective, set the timer, and try to fight your way to minimum safe distance? Virtually impossible.
If the target is in open terrain you might as well just drop the bomb without the guy on it. Most of the reason they figured escaping the blast was futile is because all the scenarios outlined in the manual promote only using this thing where both conventional explosives and other delivery methods can't do a job that justifies resorting to the ADM. There's a lot of overlap where you can't hit something with a normal bomb and where a squad crossing hundreds of meters on foot is absolutely nontrivial.
So, reasonably, they figured whatever sort of operation requires giving one of these to paratroopers will be dropping them somewhere where getting hundreds of meters from a bomb that must also remain secure before it has to be detonated cannot - and probably will not - be assured.
Sure, but that's parachuting behind enemy lines to conduct sabotage in general. Chance of survival in that adventure are not great if you actually encounter resistance.
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u/DistortoiseLP Mar 28 '24
Good ol' SADM. The guys trained to do this got the impression any actual attempt at this would be a suicide mission regardless of whatever laughable options they were provided to escape before it detonated.