supply drops
Aerial cargo deliveries
Supply drops are deliveries of provisions—food, ammunition, medical supplies—released from aircraft to troops or civilians in areas difficult to reach by ground.
The method dates to military airlifts but has become ubiquitous in video games, where supply drops deliver weapons, gear, or rewards to players at random or contested locations: Everyone rushed the supply drop.
- airdropParachute delivery from aircraft
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- crateContainer for transport
- care packageSupportive gift shipment
- cargoTransported goods
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Sealing off a place
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supply dropsevacuation
Removal from danger
extraction · resource extraction · requisitioning · foraging · looting
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