Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment

Download or read book Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual describes and illustrates the techniques and procedures for preparing and rigging typical container loads for low-velocity and high-velocity airdrop. It also contains and illustrates procedures for rigging typical supply loads of POL, 55-gallon drums of gasoline, individual combat meals, containers for airdrop in jungle terrain, AN/TPS-22 radar set in A-22 cargo bag, gyro azimuth theodolite in A-21 cargo bag, and 50-g.p.m. dispenser in A-22 cargo bag. These procedures will not be used for rigging ammunition in containers for airdrop; procedures outlined in TM 10-500-53/TO 13C7-18-41 will be used for this purpose.