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    The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) is an American military airdrop system which uses the Global Positioning System (GPS), steerable parachutes...
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    drone Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) Loadmaster Paratrooper Winged tank BMD-1 air-drop techniques Technical Order (TO)13C7-1-11 Airdrop of Supplies...
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    intended drop zone easily. The system uses a GPS that integrates with the Mission Planner of the Joint Precision Airdrop System (MP JPADS), ensuring more accurate...
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  • The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs)...
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    Rapid Dragon is a palletized and disposable weapons module which is airdropped in order to deploy flying munitions, typically cruise missiles, from unmodified...
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    methods including Low Velocity Aerial Delivery (LAPS) or via Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS), guided parachutes, methods. The SRTV has a range of...
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  • Summary". RAND. Retrieved 2 May 2012. Benney, Richard; et al. "The Joint Precision Airdrop System Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration" (PDF). www.aiaa.org...
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    training and are equipped with telescopic sights. Modern snipers use high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics. They often also serve as scouts/observers...
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    2022-01-26. Precision Airdrop Technology Conference and Demonstration July 2009 NATICK website Hennings, E:"Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems", Aerospace...
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    aftermath of 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. An IAF C-17 executed a precision airdrop of two Combat Rubberised Raiding Craft along with a platoon of 8 MARCOS...
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    Retrieved 26 May 2015. "Finland – F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft with Air-to-Air Missiles and Air-to-Ground Precision Guided Munitions | Defense Security...
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    palletized Mission System; enhanced Communications System including datalink and SATCOM capabilities; Store Management System to employ Precision Guided Munitions...
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    February 2007, the squadron was the first to use the more accurate Joint Precision Airdrop System in Iraq. It was part of the program to reduce ground convoy...
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    detection, wind shear alert, and ballistic wind measurement (for precision airdrop) Motorola (now General Dynamics) AN/APQ-150 Beacon Tracking Radar...
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    Africa. The mission of the 816th was to provide global strategic airlift, airdrop, aeromedical evacuation and humanitarian relief, to create an air bridge...
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    as well with Army Rangers and Joint Special Operations Command Special Mission Units, acting primarily as precision airstrike controllers, communications...
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    the goods, the planes can maintain a normal flight altitude and simply airdrop the supplies down and let them parachute to the ground. However, when the...
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    well as other airdrop equipment. Project Manager Soldier Lethality (PM SL) aims to enhance soldiers' capabilities by improving current systems and developing...
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  • artillery. The Precision Strike Missile is a surface-to-surface guided missile intended to be fired from the current M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System and M142...
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    anti-aircraft fire, it quickly became clear that guidance would be required for precision. However, rockets, or "Unrotated Projectiles" as they were called, could...
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    parachuting skills required to infiltrate an objective area by static line airdrop. This course includes ground operations week, tower week, and "jump week"...
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    Artillery (redirect from Artillery system)
    guidance systems for small munitions has allowed large-caliber guided projectiles to be developed, blurring this distinction. See Long Range Precision Fires...
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    operations by elements of the 82nd Airborne Division, deployed by C141 airdrop/airland elements of the 317th Combat Control Squadron, 507th Tactical Air...
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    unarmed convoy of ships, the Indian Government decided to carry out an airdrop of the humanitarian supplies on the evening of 4 June 1987 designated Operation...
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    was involved through rotation. It was tasked with air transportation, airdrop and electronic reconnaissance. Some 25 members of the unit were killed...
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    MGS could be airdropped. This testing started with a series of 12-foot drop tests, followed by the US Air Force successfully airdropping an up-weighted...
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    glass cockpit, fly-by-wire flight controls, a high-precision navigation system, and self protection systems. On 26 January 2010, the maiden flight of the XC-2...
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    311,597 rounds of 30 mm ammunition. The type also flew 32 missions to airdrop propaganda leaflets. A single A-10 was shot down near Baghdad International...
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    Directed (JMD) personnel airdrop to night-time adverse weather terrain-following flight in mountainous terrain supporting airdrop and airland to covert and...
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    command offloaded and airdropped equipment supporting the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) radar system across northern Canada...
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