Ha....that seat support system looks like what someone would design as a school project to keep an egg from breaking when you dropped it from a second story building.
I guess the mech analysis works out. The occupants had damned well better be strapped in on reentry or liftoff, though....
If the seats fail there is backup, both struts under the seat will impale their back to support them.
“The occupants had damned well better be strapped in on reentry or liftoff, though....”
You’re suggesting that isn’t always true?