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FM 57-30 Airborne Operations

FM 57-30

Airborne Operations

Army · FM · Jul 1959 · 190 pages

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I. General a. Airborne operations consist of the movement and delivery by air, into an objective area, of combat forces and their administra- tive support for the execution of tactical and strategic missions. Such operations are normally joint in nature and are conducted by Army combat forces using aircraft from other services. Army transport aviation may be used in air-mobile operations as part of airborne operations. b. The capability to conduct airborne operations affords the com- mander a means of decisively influencing tactical or strategic opera- tions through the ability of the airborne force to overcome the limitations of time, and distance, to cross geographical barriers, and to bypass hostile areas at high speed and with little warning to the enemy.

DesignationFM 57-30

EditionJul 1959

StatusSuperseded

Pages190

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 37

TM 57-210Not in the Vault
TM 57-210ANot in the Vault
FM 31-21ANot in the Vault
FM 17-100Not in the Vault
FM 21Not in the Vault
FM 31Not in the Vault
FM 31-40Not in the Vault
FM 101-31Not in the Vault
TM 9-2800Not in the Vault
TM 9-2800-1Not in the Vault
TM 57-220Not in the Vault
TC 10-1Not in the Vault