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A force composed primarily of ground and air units organized, equipped, and trained for airborne operations. See also force(s).

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force(s)			IN view of Remembrance Day the Coventry REME and Airborne Forces branches held their meetings on November 4 at the TA Centre, Radford Road. ex-servicenotes by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) Although most of the airborne forces of the world still use round parachutes, some specialized military free-fall units use ram-air airfoils, which provide control of speed and direction, as their primary means of infiltration. The Black Daggers: global warriors by Soldiers Magazine The Paras 10, a tough endurance race, pits members of the world-famous Parachute Regiment against civilians in aid of injured servicemen and airborne forces. Take on the Paras by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			air-sleeve Air-tight air-to-air air-to-air guided missile air-to-air missile air-to-ground air-to-ground missile air-to-sea air-to-surface air-to-surface guided missile air-to-surface missile air-traffic air-traffic control air-traffic controller airbag airball airbed airboat airborne airborne alert airborne assault airborne assault weapon airborne command post airborne early warning airborne early warning and control airborne force airborne force liaison officer airborne interception equipment airborne lift airborne mission commander airborne operation airborne order airborne patrol airborne radio relay airborne sensor operator airborne transmission airborne troops airbrake airbrick airbrush airburst airbus AirbusÂ aircraft aircraft arresting barrier aircraft arresting cable aircraft arresting gear aircraft arresting hook aircraft arresting system aircraft arresting wire aircraft arrestment			Airborne Electronics Unit Airborne Element Tactical Air Control System Airborne Elements of the Theater Air Control System Airborne Emergency Action Officer Airborne Emergency Reaction Unit Airborne Emission Spectrometer Airborne Engineering Evaluation Support Activity Airborne Engineering Evaluation Support Branch Airborne Equipment Failure Airborne Evaluation Equipment Airborne Executive Processor Airborne eXpendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Airborne Expendable Countermeasures Airborne Expendable Current Profiler Airborne Experiment to Study Ozone Production Airborne Exposure Limit Airborne Express Airborne Field Artillery Regiment Airborne Fire Control Radar Airborne Fire Fighting Equipment Airborne Fire-Control Radar Airborne Flight Information Service Airborne Flight Information System Airborne Flying Laboratory airborne force airborne force liaison officer Airborne forces Airborne forces Airborne Formation Flight Simulator Airborne Forward Air Controller Airborne Fuel Tanker/Cargo Airborne Gamma Ray Spectrometric Airborne Gamma Spectroscopy airborne general illumination lightself Airborne Generators Airborne Geoid Mapping System for Coastal Oceanography Airborne Global Command and Control System Airborne Global Information Grid Airborne Graphics Software Support System Airborne Gravity Gradiometer Airborne Gravity System Airborne Ground Fire Locating System Airborne Ground Fire Locator Airborne Ground Generators Airborne Ground Surveillance Airborne Ground Surveillance and Battle Management Systems Airborne Guidance Unit Airborne Heading-Attitude Reference System Airborne Human Machine Interface Airborne Identification Mobile System

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