Awesome, surreal footage: C-17 heavy cargo pallets airdrop through the NVG imagery

July 10, 2013 Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

The following video shows three heavy cargo pallets being dropped from a C-17 Globemaster in support of ground operations during Joint Operational Access Exercise 13-3.

JOAX is a seven-day integrated exercise between the 82nd Airborne Division and its Air Force partners whose aim is to improve planning and execution of a large-scale forcible entry into a hostile area; securing sufficient freedom of movement while facing anti-access and area-denial capabilities of our enemy.

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.