air drops
Supplies from above
Air drops are deliveries made by dropping supplies, equipment, or personnel from aircraft, typically using parachutes: Humanitarian air drops brought food to the flooded region.
In cryptocurrency and gaming, an airdrop is a distribution of free tokens or items to users' accounts, often as promotion or reward: I got some free coins from that airdrop.
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- suppliesResources for a task
- care packagesParcels of essentials sent
- cargoTransported goods
- militaryArmed forces collectively
special ops · humanitarian · relief · packages · crates · plane · aircraft · freefall · free fall · low altitude · canopy · cargo plane · soldiers · deployment · aid · rations · bundles · skydivers
- air warfareairstrike, bombing runs, dive bombing, precision bombing, saturation bombing
- polar operationsice roads, ice station, research station, icebreakers, research base
- relief aviationmedevac, airlift, medical evacuation, evacuation flights, helicopter rescue
delivery method
air dropsground transportation
Non-flying travel methods
truck convoys · road transport · rail transport · surface mail · pack animals