The phrase "airborne support" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military operations, logistics, or any situation where support is provided from the air, such as aerial assistance in emergencies or transportation.
Example: "The military deployed airborne support to assist ground troops during the operation."
Alternatives: "aerial support" or "air support".
Army Group B comprised Küchler's 18th Army, with one armoured division and airborne support, to attack the Netherlands, and Reichenau's 6th, with two armoured divisions, to advance over the Belgian plain.
To prepare for those final ferries, Dryden Flight Research Center has been shipping out ground and airborne support equipment that supported shuttle landing and servicing operations over the past 35 years — including parts from NASA 911.
"A South Vietnamese military spokesman said at a briefing in Saigon yesterday afternoon that sizable elements of airborne soldiers, supported by tanks, had entered Quangtri city early yesterday morning," he wrote in a 1972 report.
With help from the UK, the US is also offering logistical support, airborne refuelling, with a specialist Pentagon-approved team providing intelligence on targeting.
In March 1945, the 6th Airborne Division was informed that it would be participating in Operation Varsity, an airborne operation in support of 21st Army Group crossing the River Rhine during Operation Plunder.
Planning then began for the invasion of Europe, and even early plans for Overlord called for the commitment of airborne forces to support the ground forces and protect their landing areas.
The division was selected to participate in Operation Varsity, the airborne operation to support the 21st Army Group crossing the River Rhine, but was removed from the operation due to there being insufficient transport aircraft to carry the division into combat.
A number of plans were made by the War Office for the design in light of this decision, including equipping reconnaissance units with them, or the unsuccessful idea of attaching wings to them so that aircraft could tow them as gliders into position to support airborne forces; eventually it was decided to hand over those tanks that had been built to the Royal Air Force for use in airfield defence.
Airborne measurements are supported by extensive ground truth data which have been reported in separate publications.
They utilised American tactics of quick airborne (helibourne) assaults supported by heavy aerial bombardments of FRELIMO camps by the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) to surround and eliminate the guerrillas.
The theory of EC infection as an airborne disease is supported by data from the investigated farm.
