Air Drop Operations

This marks the 62nd year of Operation Christmas Drop, which began in 1952, making it the world's longest running airdrop

Footage from crewmembers at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point explaining how air drop operations work from an HC-130 Hercules

U.S. Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 (VMGR-252) and U.S. Army Soldiers with 303rd Psychological Operations Company (33rd

Coast Guard aircrew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., practice dropping rescue equipment from the ramp of a flying C-130

35,000 pounds of water dropped in seconds. Nailed it!

Naval Special Warfare Group Four and Special Boat Team Twenty Air Operations conduct a sequential air drop from a C-17

C-17A Globemaster III crew members from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron load pallets at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, and perform an

Once they are capable of air dropping a keg I'm getting one of these.

Paratroopers conduct a palletized heavy equipment drop on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 17, 2013. Love the part where they

Blackwater resupplies a US Army combat outpost in Afghanistan. The last pallet landed in razor wire...3 of 4 is a