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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.

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

I was disappointed on the morning of December 12, when he told me that he could not arrange for the pictures as the paradrop originated from a place where he had no access.

On Dec.12 1971, a psy-op that aided the Tangail pradrop: Bangla war

Clearly, US Air Force aircraft would figure prominently in the suppression and destruction of North Korean airfields, from which platforms (most of them AN-2s) carrying SOF troops would deploy, and in support of the South Korean air force's aerial interception of enemy transport aircraft conducting paradrop missions into the South.

The future of US airpower on the Korean Peninsula

The 21st TCS "max-effort" paradrop at Sunchon was performed skillfully--an example of expert pilots flying well-maintained aircraft.

The Kyushu Gypsy Squadron in Korea

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.

Black kite discretion

THE Indian Air Force's heavy lift transport aircraft IL- 76 was used for the first time to paradrop in the high altitude Nyoma area near Leh creating a new record in military aviation.

IAF's transport aircraft logs a new military aviation record

Block 10 (Nos 49 to 57) features a new form of tailplane construction, dual-row paradrop capability and crew protective armour.

A New Dawn for Airlift

Paradrops have been performed with Russian military IL-76MD transport planes.

Russian, Belarusian, Serbian troops Crush 'Terrorists' in Joint Drills

Caption: Here seen in his "office': the loadmaster is as important as the flight crew in military missions since he monitors all weight distribution and operations, including paradrops, from this station.

Flight of the '400: most defence journalists have had the opportunity to fly in a military transport aircraft, generally to be transferred to an area of operations or a military base. On this occasion though, the Editor, together with a few of his peers, had the privilege to be taken nowhere during this inaugural "public flight of the A400M"--if defence journalists can be called public

Note that because of the (icing) weather delay to some C-141s, the last paradrops at Torrijos-Tocumen took place at about 0515 local; see Steele, "Operation Just Cause," p.

First fight: the U.S. Air Force's special tactics group in Panama, December 1989