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[[Image:MK7JumpPack.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Overview of Mk.7 Mars Pattern Jump Pack{{Fn|4}}]]
A '''Jump Packjump pack''' is a back mounted device containing turbines or jets powerful enough to lift even a user in [[Power Armour]].
==Overview==
Jump Pack's packs are based on ancient [[STC]] technology. Intake vents on the top of the pack intake air to feed the jets, while the turbine blades expel it to create lift. Even with the aid of the power armorarmour's energy coils the jump pack has its own fuel supply, such is the power required to send a fully armed and armored armoured [[Space Marine]] into the sky. A Jump Pack jump pack is usually good for around a dozen or so "jumps" before it must be refueled refuelled or discarded.{{Fn|4}} [[Suspensor|Antigravitic suspensor]]s are also attached to jump packs.{{Fn|16b}} Significant amounts of dust, smoke or other debris choking the air can potentially choke a jump pack's vents within a couple of minutes of sustained use.{{Fn|16a}} A jump pack can barely manage sustained flight with the weight of two armoured Space Marines — albeit at a relatively slowed speed.{{Fn|16b}}
A jump pack greatly enhances a warrior's mobility by allowing him to travel quickly across the battlefield, making great bounding leaps over obstructions and launching him into the melee of close combat. Its roaring engines cam can also slow the wearer's descent when leaping from low-flying aircraft, allowing him to [[Deep Strike]] with relative safety directly into the fray.{{Fn|1}}
Some models of jump pack feature inbuilt [[grenade launcher]]s that can clear out the space that the user will land in.{{Fn|6}}
==Known Patterns==
*'''Incunabulum''' — The [[Thallax]] forces of the [[Mechanicum]] were once equipped with Incunabulum jet packs.{{Fn|15}}
*'''Mk.IV Maximus Pattern''' — Used by Space Marines clad in [[Mk.IV Power Armour]], this unusual design had a single thruster with smaller manoeuvring jets.{{Fn|3}}
*'''Mk.VII Mars Pattern''' — Standard design used by [[Assault Marine]]s{{Fn|4}}
*'''Valkyris Pattern''' — Used by the [[Space Wolves]].{{Fn|2}}
*[[Venatari Jump Harness]] — Used by [[Custodian Venatari]].{{Fn|8}}
*'''[[Warhawk Jump Pack|Warhawk Pattern''' ]] — Standard during the [[Great Crusade]].{{Fn|7}}
*[[Winged Jump Pack]] — Used by the [[Sanguinary Guard]] of the [[Blood Angels]]
==Vehicular Jump Packs==
*[[Contemptor-Incaendius Dreadnought]] - In the days of the [[Horus Heresy]], the '''Contemptor-Incaendius Class Dreadnought''' was developed by the [[Blood Angels]] [[Legion]] with a powerful rocket booster pack, allowing it make a controlled descent from orbit, or cover the distance to its foe in a series of long leaps. Once its fuel is exhausted, explosive bolts disengage the spent pack from the chassis.{{Fn|13}}
*[[Imperial Titan#Equipment|Titan Jump Packs]] - [[Imperial Titan]]s may be fitted with colossal jump packs. Such boosters of incredible power allow the mighty god-machines to leap over obstructing buildings or even other Titans in battle.{{Fn|14a}} Such jump packs may even be salvaged from incapacitated Titans, though they are irrevocably destroyed if the Titan were to suffer catastrophic reactor damage or crushed when the Titan suffers severe leg damage.{{Fn|14b}}
==Notable Jump Packs==
*[[Angel's Wing]]
*[[The Korvidine Pinions]]
*[[Raven's Fury]]
*[[Victorious Flight]]
*[[Rokkit Pack]]
*[[Space Marine Equipment (List)]]
*[[Revenant Titan]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest]], pg. 166
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Hunt for Voldorius (Novel)]], Chapter 9
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Liber Astartes(2nd Edition)]], pg. 331
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Liber Imperium]], pg. 159
*{{Endn|9}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20240819002345/https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Space-Marines-Primaris-Inceptors-2020 Games Workshop Inceptor Squad] saved page, original link: https://www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/Space-Marines-Primaris-Inceptors-2020 (last accessed 18/8/2024)
*{{Endn|11}}: [https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/MKV-Space-Marine-Assault-Squad Games Workshop MKV Assault Squad] (last accessed 18/8/2024)
*{{Endn|12}}: [https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Adepta-Sororitas-Seraphim-Squad-2020 Games Workshop Seraphim Squad] (last accessed 18/8/2024)
*{{Endn|13}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Eight - Malevolence]], pg. 209
*14: [[Codex Titanicus (1st Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|14a}}: pg. 39
**{{Endn|14b}}: pg. 48
*{{Endn|15}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20250820221758/https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/2yehwjta/begin-your-conquest-of-the-age-of-darkness-with-new-combat-forces/ Warhammer-Community: Begin your conquest of the Age of Darkness with new Combat Forces] ''(archived 20 Aug 2025, last accessed 20 Aug 2025)''
*16: [[Void Stalker (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|16a}}: Chapter XIII
**{{Endn|16b}}: Chapter XIV
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*[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], {{Cite ThisMarker End}}
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