High Altitude Insertion Pt. 2 takes the MAX GAIN crew into the next phase of HAHO training: 25,000-foot jumps, bundles, bad weather, and live helmet-cam video riding across Wave Relay.
At that altitude, everything gets harder. The aircraft, the jumpers, the gear, the oxygen plan, the weather, and the comms all have to work before the team ever gets to the ground. Rain at altitude is bad for aircraft and worse for humans. Add negative 40-degree temperatures, long separation under canopy, being strapped to heavy equipment bundles, and the insert becomes far more complex than your typical weekend skydive.
More moving pieces means more coordination, and HAHO gives comms no stable geometry to hide behind. The aircraft is moving. Jumpers are spreading out. Altitude is changing. Line of sight is never the same for long.
That is the point of using a Wave Relay here.
Unlike point-to-point radio systems, Wave Relay is not built around protecting one perfect link. Each MPU5 acts as a router inside the MANET, so voice, position, data, and live video can move across the best available route as the formation changes in real time. The more nodes you add, the more possible paths the network has to work with.
In this episode, we walk through the prep, the weather calls, the equipment, the jump plan, and the coordination behind high-altitude high-opening insertions.
All of that coordination requires information moving fast enough for decisions to matter. Voice can tell you what is happening. Live video shows you.
The helmet cams are not just there to make the episode look good. Live video gives the team and command a shared view of the problem. It turns the insert from something being reported over voice into something that can be watched, understood, and acted on in real time.
At that point, no one cares how good the network sounds in a brief. They care whether the feed is up, the position is moving, the voice is clear, and the information is getting where it needs to go.
That is the difference.
This is why Wave Relay exists.
Not to make another radio.
To give warfighters the information advantage that makes them faster, safer, and more lethal.
Watch High Altitude Insertion Pt. 1: https://youtu.be/LadW8tjCV30?si=T4NPm4Yh0q97FEqk
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High Altitude Insertion Pt. 2 | MAX GAIN
May 2, 2026 9:00 am