air-drop

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  1. drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter
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  • Mr Jake Swinson is from the armaments centre, which develops, tests, evaluates and acquires non-nuclear, air-dropped munitions.
  • Mr Jake Swinson is from the armaments centre, which develops, tests, evaluates and acquires non-nuclear, air-dropped munitions.
  • The air-drop equipment is intended to air drop paratroopers, materiel and cargo.
  • SAR kits are usually pre-packaged in palletised form that is, on a standard 463L air-droppable pallet. Who's writing the rulebook?
  • The Remote Miniature Weather Station (RMWS), from System Innovations, is an air-droppable version with a lightweight, expendable and modular system comprised of two components; a meteorological (MET) sensor and a ceilometer (cloud ceiling height) with limited MET. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The air-drop equipment is intended to air drop paratroopers, materiel and cargo.
  • airpower" we mean the tactical and strategic employment of conventional aviation ordnance, including air-dropped mines. On Yankee Station
  • This definition includes "all explosive ordnance designed to explode at some point in time after dispersal or release from the parent cluster munition, as well as munitions that are sometimes referred to as bomblets (e.g. from air-dropped cluster munitions), grenades (e.g. from ground-launched artillery, rocket or missile systems) and 'improved conventional munitions'." end of a conflict, and are more lethal than antipersonnel mines as they are more likely to cause death than injury when they explode. IRIN
  • In 1958, the US began to deploy hundreds of nuclear warheads, atomic mines, artillery shells and air-dropped nukes in South Korea.
  • With dogsleds and air-dropped resupplies - ‘a logistical nightmare,’ according to Steger - the team traversed 3,800 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula past the South Pole to Russia's Mirnyy Station.
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