Airdrop
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military transport aircraft conducting an airdrop demonstration over Miho Air Base, 2018 airdropping humanitarian aid supplies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, themselves often airborne forces, airdrops can also refer to the airborne assault itself.
military transport aircraft conducting an airdrop demonstration over Miho Air Base, 2018]] airdropping humanitarian aid supplies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake]] An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, themselves often airborne forces, airdrops can also refer to the airborne assault itself. File:Airdrop pallets.jpg|Gravity airdrop of CDS bundles from a C-17 File:C-130 airdrop.jpg|Extraction airdropping a M551 Sheridan light tank File:Aid airdrop over Mirebalais 2010-01-21 3.JPG|Airdropped humanitarian supplies being recovered in Haiti, 2010 File:C-17 Airdrop 4 Humvees + 50 Paratroopers.ogv|Video of an airdrop of Humvees and paratroopers from inside a C-17 Globemaster III File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-667-7133-03, Russland, Verpflegungsabwurfkiste.jpg|Food supply crate mounted under a German He 111 bomber, 1944
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