airlift
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thumb|300px|right|People boarding a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a large military cargo aircraft An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft.
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It sits within the topics Airlifts and Military transport.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Strategic airlift
- Tactical airlift
- Airlifter comparison
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thumb|300px|right|People boarding a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a large military cargo aircraft 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “airlift” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.