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Airlift
An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft. Airlifting consists of two distinct types: strategic and tactical. Typically, strategic airlifting involves moving material long distances (such as across or off the continent or theater), whereas a tactical airlift focuses on deploying resources and material into a specific location with high precision. Depending on the situation, airlifted supplies can be delivered by a variety of means. When the destination and surrounding airspace is considered secure, the aircraft will land at an appropriate airport or airbase to have its cargo unloaded on the ground. When landing the craft or distributing the supplies to a certain area from a landing zone by surface transportation is not an option, the cargo aircraft can drop them in mid-flight using parachutes attached to the supply containers in question. When there is a broad area available where the intended receivers have co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C5 Galaxy
C5, C05, C V or C-5 may refer to: Military use * Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a military transport aircraft * C-5 North Star, a 1940s Canadian military aircraft * , a 1906 Royal Navy C-class submarine * , a 1908 United States Navy C-class submarine * , an 1889 United States Navy protected cruiser * Albatros C.V, a World War I German military reconnaissance aircraft * AEG C.V, a World War I prototype German two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft * DFW C.V, a World War I German military reconnaissance aircraft * Fokker C.V, a 1924 Dutch light reconnaissance and bomber biplane aircraft * Halberstadt C.V, a World War I German single-engined reconnaissance biplane * Fokker C-5, an American military version of the Fokker F.VII aircraft * , a 1915 German Type UC I U-boat * C-5 (blimp), a United States Navy airship that attempted a trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 Transport, vehicles, roads, public transport routes Road * C5 automatic, a successor to Ford C4 transmission * Chevrolet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biafran Airlift
The Biafran Airlift was an international humanitarian relief effort that transported food and medicine to Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. Relief flights lasted from 1967 to 1969. This was the largest civilian airlift and, after the Berlin airlift of 1948–49, the largest non-combatant airlift of any kind ever carried out. The airlift was largely a series of joint efforts by Protestant and Catholic church groups, and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), operating civilian and military aircraft with volunteer (mostly) civilian crews and support personnel. Several national governments also supported the effort, mostly behind the scenes. This sustained joint effort, which lasted one and a half times as long as its Berlin predecessor, is estimated to have saved more than a million lives. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikhism
Sikhism is an Indian religion and Indian philosophy, philosophy that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century CE. It is one of the most recently founded major religious groups, major religions and among the largest in the world with about 25–30million adherents, known as Sikhs. Sikhism developed from the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak (1469–1539), the faith's first guru, and the nine Sikh gurus who succeeded him. The tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), named the Guru Granth Sahib, which is the central religious scripture in Sikhism, was their successor. This brought the line of human gurus to a close. Sikhs regard the Guru Granth Sahib as the 11th and eternally living guru. The core beliefs and practices of Sikhism, articulated in the Guru Granth Sahib and other Sikh scriptures, include faith and meditation in the name of the one creator (''Ik Onkar''), the divine unity and equality of all humankind, engaging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Iraq Command
Iraq Command was the Royal Air Force (RAF) commanded British Armed Forces, inter-service Command (military formation), command in charge of United Kingdom, British forces in Iraq in the 1920s and early 1930s, during the period of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. It continued as British Forces in Iraq until 1941 when it was replaced by AHQ Iraq. It consisted of Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, British Army, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and locally raised units, commanded by an RAF officer normally of Air Vice-Marshal rank. Origins Following the end of World War I and the accompanying British defence cuts, the new RAF took up the task of policing the British Empire, Empire from the air. In May 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British, an insurgency broke out around the Euphrates and this uprising rapidly extended to a more general area. The Air Officer Commanding the Middle East dispatched an additional squadron from Egypt to Iraq. In London the Government were seeking a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
