@koropokkur@wishgranter14 Powered paragliders tend to be moving pretty fast and a reserve parachute can be swapped to very fast, which make them hard to shoot out of the sky.
@Suiseiseki@koropokkur@wishgranter14 That would matter in any other country, but we're talking about the inventors of the Barak missile system that can detect and intercept projectiles as small as a mortar shell.