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AERIAL DELIVERY Dropped from aircraft as far as 25 mi. (40 km) away, batwing-like parafoil gliders will guide troops and supplies for precise landings into designated drop zones...
...NATO aircraft lit the sky over Yugoslavia at the start of Operation Allied Force last year, NATO's political leaders were stating that "NATO is not at war with Yugoslavia." Tell that to the pilots who flew night and day against the missiles and antiaircraft fire over Serbia and who saw the effects of the ethnic cleansing on the ground...
Operation Allied Force was a campaign extending over 78 days and involving more than 900 aircraft, hundreds of cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo...
...reduced the risks to our own pilots by using high-technology aircraft to frustrate the enemy's air defenses. Video-teleconferencing and virtual-intelligence centers created by using a secret, high-capacity Internet helped keep up with the detailed top-down guidance and changing politics directed by an alliance of 19 sovereign states--all as the world's media looked on. After 78 days, the opposing leader gave in to NATO's demands, without a single NATO ground soldier having to fight his way into Serbia...
...then received a similar amount from Eritrea for a batch of MiG-29 fighters and more for a handful of Sukhoi 25 ground-attack fighters. And the bonanza for the former Soviets didn't end there: Since neither side had the pilots and technical personnel to operate the sophisticated aircraft, they were initially operated and flown by personnel from former Soviet allies before locals could be trained. Bulgaria got in on the action too, supplying rockets to the Eritreans and tanks to the Ethiopians, while Italy supplied helicopters to the Eritreans, and Israel, France and China supplied expertise, communications equipment...