Vertical replenishment
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
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Vertical replenishment: A subset of underway replenishment, in which the supply ship and the warship being resupplied do not physically connect, but use helicopters to transfer the supples. Faster and requiring less shiphandling skill than connected replenishment, but cannot transfer as large a volume
