aerial supply

The act or process by which supplies are air-delivered to ground units. The supplies may be air-dropped or air-landed. In the former case, supplies may be delivered by using parachutes or in a free fall.

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Aleksandar Mitrovic reverted to looking like a street urchin begging for his supper, such was his lack of aerial supply.

United never been so in need of a grafter

Taylor, who has been living on borrowed time all season, was subbed at half-time ending his personal agony, Gini Wijnaldum was seen as often as Greta Garbo, Moussa Sissoko was inept as usual, and Aleksandar Mitrovic reverted to looking like a street urchin begging for his supper such was his lack of aerial supply. If you don't feed him you may as well not play him.

Newcastle United hoisted the white flag at Southampton as the contest lasted four minutes; Newcastle United are heading towards the Championship at an alarming pace, after a failure to strengthen time and again

During the first day of the FTX, the Cameroon armed forces made history with their first ever aerial supply delivery from a C-130 transport.

Enhancing self sufficiency in central africa: Exercise central accord 13 helped cameroon and surrounding nations bolster capabilities to support disaster response and peace by enhancing their logistics capacity and medical readiness

Before his first career as a newspaper publisher and his next long career as a newspaper broker, Mel Hodell flew supplies into China during World War II as part of the round-the-clock, all-weather aerial supply runs.

Six Decades Late, Former Publisher/Broker Mel Hodell Gets Flying Cross

At this point, you smile and wonder why you didn't have such a low-cost, low-altitude aerial supply capability before.

Low-cost, low-altitude aerial resupply: an Army project to resupply units by airdrop developed from a concept to a valued combat operational capability in the hands of our Soldiers in just 16 months

One such operation, dubbed Alamein IV, involved the aerial supply to remote elements of an Australian army border-transition team in southwest Iraq.

Air resupply

But it could be argued that - like Morientes and Cisse - he suffers from a lack of good aerial supply.

Len Capeling: Now pull together; Fans deserve better from flops

The implementation of aerial supply routes in some high-threat regions "helped keep (about) 40 additional trucks off the road per day" and kept "at least 80 soldiers" out of harm's way on a daily basis, he said.

American forces press service (April 25, 2005); Army general: Air Force helped logistics success in Iraq

The goals have dried up at the Fritz-Walter Stadium and Bochum will have been working all week on stopping the aerial supply line to Miroslav Klose and Vratislav Lokvenc.

Football: Bochum just the job to sink Kaiserslautern

Playing three up front, and with a dangerous aerial supply being pumped in by former Coventry City winger Paul Hall, Bury were soon testing the nerve ends of Wolves keeper Mike Stowell.

Football: Wolves left all shook up by battling Bury Bury 0 Wolves 0

The proposed modular distribution unit would be a platoon-sized element with multi functional characteristics and would consist of a headquarters section, operations section, receiving and issue section, cargo transfer section, retrograde section, aerial supply section, and maintenance section.