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paradrop

The delivery by parachute of personnel or cargo from an aircraft in flight.
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Japanese soldiers had been hiding in spider holes outside the airfield perimeter for an unknown period of time intending to attack fanatically on foot in concert with the paradrop. However, unknown to them the drop had been postponed a day so the ground assault spent itself fruitlessly on the perimeter 24 hours early.
Death from above: the Japanese Type 99 paratrooper machine gun
Virtually isolated by a naval blockade imposed by two to five Chinese warships 24/7, the Philippine Navy paradrops supplies to the sun-baked ship to avoid a naval confrontation.
School kids receive letters from soldiers in loneliest outpost
"What happened was we had to bring the materials in by paradrop, the U.S.
Mars project brings space program to Nunavut youth. (Education)
Overall length: 42" (takes down to 23" for paradrop)
The Johnson Light Machine Gun
The defeat of the saffron party in the Delhi polls, has led BJP workers to openly question the high command's decision to ' paradrop' the top cop as their poll mascot in the final leg of the campaign.
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Major General Gill was the Colonel of the Para Regiment and I knew that publicity for the paradrop was vital for the operation.
On Dec.12 1971, a psy-op that aided the Tangail pradrop: Bangla war
In addition, North Korean SOF personnel can practice paradrop training from towers as well as aircraft, the former obviously not constrained by limitations on fuel and/or flight time.
The future of US airpower on the Korean Peninsula
The unit was organized to paradrop into Norway's snow-clad mountains in a campaign that was later called off.
Black Devil Brigade: an oral history
They decided to proceed quickly up the North Korean peninsula with paradrop of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team north of Pyongyang, supported by other ground units moving northward.
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European developments in the guided paradrop field include the EADS Defence Electronics SLG-Sys or Parafinder/Paralander.
Special air delivery: air support for special operations forces (SOF) has so far relied largely on adapting fixed- and rotary-wing manned/unmanned aircraft that were originally developed for other uses. The growing importance of such operations is now producing some aviation assets aimed specifically at this application
However, it is now possible to paradrop accurately from high level, by combining steerable parafoils with satellite navigation and/or radio command guidance.
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