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- Airdrop abstract "An airdrop is a type of airlift, developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, who themselves may have been airborne forces. In some cases, it is used to refer to the airborne assault itself. Early airdrops were conducted by dropping or pushing padded bundles from aircraft. Later small crates with parachutes were pushed out of the aircraft's side cargo doors. Later cargo aircraft were designed with rear access ramps, lowerable in flight, that allowed large platforms to be rolled out the back.As aircraft grew larger, the U.S. Air Force and Army developed low-level extraction, allowing tanks and other large supplies to be delivered, such as the M551 Sheridan or M2 Bradley. Propaganda leaflets are also a common item to airdrop.The airdropping of weapons evolved to the concept of having the payload itself as one massive bomb. The 15,000 pound (6,800 kg) BLU-82, nicknamed the \"Daisy Cutter\" for its ability to turn a dense forest into a helicopter landing zone in a single blast, was used in Vietnam and recently in Afghanistan. The 22,600 pound (10,250 kg) GBU-43/B, nicknamed the \"Mother Of All Bombs\", was deployed to the Persian Gulf for The Iraq War. These palletized airdropped weapons are used by cargo aircraft like the C-130 or C-17 in the traditional role of a bomber aircraft.In peacekeeping operations or humanitarian aid situations, food and medical supplies are often airdropped from United Nations and other aircraft.".
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- Airdrop wikiPageRevisionID "683125206".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink 395_Air_Despatch_Troop_RLC.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Airborne_forces.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Airbridge_(logistics).
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Airlift.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Airmail.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink BLU-82.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_C-17_Globemaster_III.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Cargo_aircraft.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Category:Airborne_warfare.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_transport.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Category:Parachuting.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Central_Landing_Establishment.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Delivery_drone.
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- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink File:C-17_airdrop.jpg.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Flight_dynamics_(fixed-wing_aircraft).
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Heinkel_He_111.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Home_Army.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Humanitarian_aid.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Iraq_War.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Joint_Precision_Airdrop_System.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Loadmaster.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_C-130_Hercules.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Low-altitude_parachute-extraction_system.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink M2_Bradley.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink M551_Sheridan.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Meal,_Ready-to-Eat.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Operations_Manna_and_Chowhound.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Parachute.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Paratrooper.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Peacekeeping.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Persian_Gulf.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Propaganda.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Psychological_warfare.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Soldier.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Tank.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Air_Force.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Army.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Vietnam_War.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–14).
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Warsaw_Uprising.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink Winged_tank.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLink File:Opbushel.jpg.
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "Aerial Delivery".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "AirDrop".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "Airdrop".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "Low Velocity Aerial Delivery".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "aerial resupply".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "air dropped".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "air drops".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "air supply".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "air-dropped".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "airborne insertion".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "airdrop".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "airdropping".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "cargo".
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- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "parachute-droppable".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "supply drops".
- Airdrop wikiPageWikiLinkText "supplying friendly forces".
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- Airdrop subject Category:Airborne_warfare.
- Airdrop subject Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- Airdrop subject Category:Military_transport.
- Airdrop subject Category:Parachuting.
- Airdrop hypernym Airlift.
- Airdrop type MilitaryUnit.
- Airdrop comment "An airdrop is a type of airlift, developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, who themselves may have been airborne forces. In some cases, it is used to refer to the airborne assault itself. Early airdrops were conducted by dropping or pushing padded bundles from aircraft. Later small crates with parachutes were pushed out of the aircraft's side cargo doors.".
- Airdrop label "Airdrop".
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- Airdrop sameAs Entrega_aérea.
- Airdrop sameAs Ilmapudotus.
- Airdrop sameAs Largage_aérien.
- Airdrop sameAs 空中投下.
- Airdrop sameAs എയർഡ്രോപ്പ്.
- Airdrop sameAs Desantowanie.
- Airdrop sameAs m.07b1v1.
- Airdrop sameAs Десантування.
- Airdrop sameAs Q3040277.
- Airdrop wasDerivedFrom Airdrop?oldid=683125206.