I guess they could be blasted out of the air with a shotgun or even a fire hose but that would still leave the fully armed warship they deployed from to deal with.
I think this technique would be used for boarding compliant vessels to do inspections where the crew would already be ordered to muster to a secure area.I'm sure it would be just as easy to stop someone trying to climb a boarding ladder with a shotgun when it comes right down to it.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
The L85/SA-80 has been (or is in the final process of being) phased out in the Royal Marines as a whole, in favor of the L119 which is a Canadian-made AR.

And the various British special operations troops in particular have been using ARs for a while now, so if the guys in the video are Royal Marine Commandos specifically, it may not even be that new of an addition.

Yuppers.
Pretty much all Western country's SOF units use an AR-platform for their primary. The entire RM are in transition to the L119.

With a little background in boarding vessels on the high seas, you couldn’t pay me to do that. At least when I did it , we had a RHIB full of other coasties who were all carrying guns and could shoot back. The most dangerous part of the whole boarding was the boarding and the debarking....

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Originally posted by architect:
So will it be the UK military or the Somali pirates who make first practical use of these jet packs?

The Capt. Phillips incident would have gone a lot differently if the crew had a few shotguns aboard.

Well, the UK needs something that they can launch off of their new aircraft carrier!