airdrop
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- n delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft
until then, front line troops will be supplied by airdrop
- The Air Force military-transport plane is used to move troops into war zones, perform medical evacuations and conduct airdrop missions.
- GRAINS OF HOPE: Following an airdrop by the World Food Program in war-torn west Darfur, Sudanese women sift the dust to salvage wheat that has spilled from burst food bags.
- Security rules prevented anyone from disclosing what the air tests showed, although California's Republican Representative Craig Hosmer described one airdrop at which he was an .