airborne operations
Troops from above
Military actions involving the movement of combat forces and their equipment by aircraft, with delivery by parachute drop or air landing.
Airborne operations allow forces to bypass ground obstacles and insert troops behind enemy lines: The airborne operation seized the bridges before dawn.
The term encompasses both paratrooper drops and helicopter assault missions.
- parachutesDescent-slowing fabric devices
- paratroopersSoldiers who parachute in
- air assaultAttack delivered from aircraft
- glidersUnpowered aircraft that soar
- transport aircraftPlane for hauling cargo
drop zones · special forces · altimeters · rapid deployment · combat jumps · night jump · low altitude · airhead · navigation systems · survival kits · air superiority · physical conditioning · emergency drills · navigation training · teamwork exercises · D-Day · static line · green light
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- military doctrineattrition warfare, combined arms, deterrence, total war, conventional warfare
- WWII Armyarmored divisions, All Americans, Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley
airborne operationsground assault
Attack by foot soldiers
ground operations · ground combat · naval operations · mechanized warfare · tunnel warfare
airborne operationstrench warfare
Combat from fortified ditches
garrison duty · holding actions · attrition warfare · defensive positions · siege warfare
airborne, airing, airless, airiness, borne, bearer, operate, operates, operated