Overview
What is tactical airlift?
Airlift is the ability to move personnel, materiel or forces using airborne platforms.
Key Terms
Tactical
Relating to or constituting actions carefully planned to gain a specific military end. Tactical is defined as the PROCEDURAL focused level of armed conflict (strategic, operational and tactical levels).
Airborne Operations
Airborne Operations are conducted within an active theatre of operations to deliver or extract combat ready forces and their logistic support into or from a contested objective area. Airborne operations often require specialised personnel, systems, tactics and procedures.