Airdrop
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An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World W
A Kawasaki C-2 military transport aircraft conducting an airdrop demonstration over Miho Air Base, 2018
A C-17 Globemaster III airdropping humanitarian aid supplies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake
Freedrop packs being airdropped out of a C-130 Hercules
Gravity airdrop of CDS bundles from a C-17
Dragon Cart
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Dragon Cart is a palletized and disposable weapons module which is airdropped in order to deploy flying munitions, typically cruise missiles, from unmodified cargo planes. First developed by the Unite
Airdrop
…C-130 or C-17 serve as bombers to deliver these palletized airdropped weapons. In 2021, the Air Force Research Laboratory successfully demonstrated the Rapid Dragon palletized cruise missile deployment system that is characterized as “a bomb bay in a box” that could allow cargo transport aircraft to act as standoff…
A Dragon Cart module being loaded on a C-130 for airdrop
Rapid Dragon mission stages
Mass launch of a swarm of miniature decoys to accompany a Rapid Dragon airdrop (Air Force Research Laboratory concept illustration)
Lockheed Martin headquarters