airborne troops
ground forces conveyed by aircraft | ||||
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Airborne troops Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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airborne troops
Those ground units whose primary mission is to make assault landings from the air. See also troops.
Those ground units whose primary mission is to make assault landings from the air. See also troops.
Airborne troops Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Airborne forces
Airborne
Military parachuting or gliding form of inserting personnel or supplies.
Purpose Delivering personnel, equipment, or supplies.
Origins Attributed to Italian troops on November 1927.
Airborne forces are military units, usually light infantry, set up to be moved by aircraft and 'dropped' into battle. Thus they can be placed behind enemy lines, and have an ability to deploy almost anywhere with little warning. The formations are limited only by the number and size of their aircraft, so given enough capacity a huge force can appear "out of nowhere" in minutes, an action referred to as vertical envelopment.
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