Photos Of The Day : Air-dropping A Humvee

Photos Of The Day : Air-dropping a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle commonly known as the Humveee.

A C-17 Globemasters or C-130 Hercules aircrafts and the CH-47 Chinook helicopter are normally used for Air-dropping. 

Ever wondered how $220,000, 5,900 pounds High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) commonly known as the Humveee is airdropped from an aircraft or helicopter? .

Before being loaded onto the cargo rails of the aircraft or lifted, the bottom of the Humvees are first loaded with pieces of lightweight woods and honeycombed pads to absorb the shock of a normal landing.

To airdrop the Humvee, the loadmaster opens the rear cargo door of the aircraft (a C-17 Globemasters or C-130 Hercules), releasing a smaller extraction parachute attached to the vehicle’s pallets.

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CH-47 Chinook helicopter

The drag of the extraction parachute pulls the Humvee along the cargo rails and out of the aircraft, with the 3 cargo parachutes deployed as soon as the Humvee leaves the aircraft to slow and allow it’s easy descent from about 750 feet above ground level to Earth.

In the case of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, the string holding the Humvee is released during air-dropping. This picture shows a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as it prepares to drop off Humvees at a landing zone as part of slingload operations during training.

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