I found this article interesting today. We've discussed Herc Mil JPADS Ops before, but this is written based on current Syrian Ops by Russian Charter aircraft.
Originally Posted by AirSpaceMag
Two weeks ago, the United Nations World Food Programme’s attempt to air-drop 21 pallets of food to some 200,000 starving Syrians in the ISIS-beseiged city of Deir ez-Zor ended in failure. The threat of anti-aircraft fire forced the Russian transport aircraft chartered by the U.N. to release its cargo—enough lentils, rice, vegetable oil, and salt to feed 2,500 people for a month, the food agency said—from an altitude of 23,000 feet. The Guardian reported that four pallets were destroyed because their parachutes didn’t open, seven landed too far away from the target area to be of benefit, and 10 had drifted so far off course they could not be located.
Air & Space Magazine
Surely the expertise for this kind of Op is the preserve of the Military ?