Dropship

A tactical aerospace lifter, more commonly known as a Dropship is an atmospheric, exoatmospheric, and/or limited space flight transport aircraft/spaceplane of compact proportions. They are chiefly designed to service a ship, generally by transporting personnel or supplies to and from surfaces or another ship.
== Role ==
The dropships main role is rapid insertion and extraction of troops, equipment and vehicles from the battlefield. Some dropships are designed to carry specific types of cargo, such as supplies or prefabricated structures. On capital ships, dropships perform double duty, serving as tenders in day-to-day activities, but fully equipped to act as evacuation crafts in an emergency.
A military dropship's primary technical definition is any logistical support/deployment platform that can deliver (or extract) ground troops, military assets, and hardware from space platforms to the surface of a planet or ship (or vice versa) for infiltration, invasion, and boarding operations. These dropships also serve as gunships and utility craft, providing ground operations with close air support in addition to ferrying infantry and matériel between combat zones within atmospheric and/or terrestrial environments.
The first ever non-FTL capable warship is the Leviathan, which was prominent during the Futureline war. The Raven is the first ever true FTL-capable dropship and the Warden is the SDF's main transportation for deploying troops off and on world.
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