The Airborne Delivery Wing is a Royal Air Force training unit that provides parachute training to all three British Armed Forces. It is based at RAF Brize...
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Armed Forces is conducted by the Parachute Training Squadron of the Airborne Delivery Wing, based at RAF Brize Norton. The Basic Parachute Course is three...
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Airborne Express was an express delivery company and cargo airline. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, its hub was in Wilmington, Ohio. Airborne was...
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Special Air Service (redirect from Counter-Revolutionary Warfare Wing)
Forces Parachute Support Squadron (Para Sp Sqn) is a sub-unit of the Airborne Delivery Wing (ADW) based at RAF Brize Norton. Supplementary to the SAS, together...
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and High Altitude Low Opening by the Parachute Training Squadron, Airborne Delivery Wing at RAF Brize Norton. For SBS personnel only, the SC3 course involves...
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This largely consists of fixed-wing aircraft, including those in the following roles: fighter and strike, airborne early warning and control, intelligence...
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RAF Brize Norton (section Expeditionary Air Wing)
Parachute Training School RAF – a training school for airborne forces, and No 1 Air Mobility Wing – an air combat support unit on high readiness to deploy...
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Exploitation Group Royal Air Force No. II Squadron RAF Regiment Airborne Delivery Wing Inter-service United Kingdom Special Forces British Army 21 Special...
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support of E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft and Control and Reporting Centers (CRCs). The wing provides combat-ready theater...
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No. 622 (Reserve Aircrew) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force) Airborne Delivery Wing Headquarters and Operation Squadron Performance Development Squadron...
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Group (Airborne) 2nd Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) Special Warfare Education Group (Airborne) Special Warfare Medical Group (Airborne) United...
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(190 km/h). The Falcons are based at RAF Brize Norton as part of the Airborne Delivery Wing (previously No. 1 Parachute Training School). Members do a three-year...
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The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured...
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Channel News Asia. 13 November 2021. "Tacocopter: The Coolest Airborne Taco Delivery System That's Completely Fake". Wired. March 23, 2012. Retrieved...
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The 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers") is an airborne infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) of the United States Army based in Vicenza, Italy. It is...
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No. 622 (Reserve Aircrew) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force) Airborne Delivery Wing Headquarters and Operation Squadron Performance Development Squadron...
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American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of...
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through early warning and detection of airborne, surface and subsurface targets. The current U.S. Navy carrier air wing consists of: Four Strike Fighter (VFA)...
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from 1967 to 1983 to designate the Airborne Early Warning (VAW) Fleet Replacement Squadrons. The VAQ (V-fixed wing, A-attack, Q-electronic). designation...
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Russian Airborne Forces (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска России, ВДВ, romanized: Vozdushno-desantnye voyska Rossii, VDV) is the airborne forces branch...
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States Navy. Its TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out") mission provides airborne communications links to nuclear missile units of United States Strategic...
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Fairey Gannet (category Inverted gull-wing aircraft)
perform alternative operations, such as an airborne electronic countermeasures platform and carrier onboard delivery aircraft. Perhaps the most extensive variant...
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Lockheed Martin KC-130 (redirect from Hercules Airborne Weapons Kit)
later upgrade. This capability, designated as "Harvest HAWK" (Hercules Airborne Weapons Kit), can be used in scenarios where precision is not a requisite...
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Airdrop (redirect from Parachute package delivery)
Troop RLC Airborne leaflet propaganda Airbridge Airmail Delivery drone Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) Loadmaster Paratrooper Winged tank BMD-1...
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The Canadian Airborne Regiment (French: Régiment aéroporté canadien) was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative...
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Pope Field (section 464th Troop Carrier Wing)
participated in joint airborne training with Army forces, and took part in tactical exercises in the United States and overseas. The wing provided aeromedical...
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the 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, assigned to the 28th Bombardment Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, provided airborne command...
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Ammunition -Airborne Equipment Section) and the drafting of Army ESPs. Courses are provided on the MSP together with training Aerial Delivery and Helicopter...
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GlobalEye is a multi-role airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) platform from Swedish defence and security company Saab. GlobalEye consists of a suite...
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Wilmington Air Park (redirect from Airborne Airpark)
classrooms. In 1980, Midwest Air Charter was acquired by Airborne Freight Corporation, resulting in Airborne Express, which became the largest tenant at WIAP...
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