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Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy perform this on a regular basis, some with more success than others.

The spaceplanes and Kulu Ion Fliers in Peter F.

'Drop shuttles' are standard equipment in the Vorkosigan Saga.

In Avengers: Infinity War, the Children of Thanos attack Wakanda by summoning drop ships containing hordes of Outriders.

The precursor prototype, the Quadjet, makes an appearance in Captain Marvel (2019).

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Also making its MCU debut in The Avengers, but reappearing several times in the series are the various types of Quinjets used by SHIELD and later the Avengers themselves.In The Avengers, the Chitauri ground troops were transported to Earth by Leviathans which combine this trope with Living Ship.Four-engined tilt-rotors are used for the Operation Downfall invasion force, with the soldiers in their Powered Armor dropping down on a cable which releases just before they hit the ground. The ship's design can be described as lovechild of a UH-1 Huey helicopter and a F-14 Tomcat fighter. Rogue One has the U-Wing, which functions as the Rebellion's main troop transport and gunship.They're tiny compared to Lambda shuttles, but each one still carries up to 20 stormtroopers and can unload them all in seconds. The Force Awakens continues the tradition with the First Order Transporters, also known as Atmospheric Assault Landers.There are a lot of different classes, designed to ferry anything from stormtroopers to AT-ATs to and from the surface of the planet and the Star Destroyer drifting in orbit. There are various other kinds of dropship in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, primarily but definitely not exclusively belonging to the Empire. The Star Wars: Battlefront games use LAATs and other craft as ship-to-ship boarding dropships.The Lambda shuttle itself is used like this in some EU works and is the inspiration for several drop ships in other works of fiction.

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Sentinel ships are an EU greatly enlarged version of the lambda shuttle seen in the movie built as drop ships, one is actually seen in one of the Episode V remastered editions.There are also LAAT-derivatives and (off-screen) barges for dropping off AT-ATs and other walkers. The Acclamators are dropships for dropships, which is pretty impressive. LAAT's and Acclamator-class ships both perform this role in the prequels, on different scales.However, drop ships were used when the deployment was on a more relaxed schedule, and ships were used to take the MIs off the planet. The ship (maybe) and its pilot (definitely) were inspired by Starship Troopers, though the preferred method in the book for deploying the Mobile Infantry was literally to drop them from orbit. Think of the lunar lander as a kind of Drop Ship and you'll get the idea. Truth in Television, given the fact that the physical requirements of 'getting from a planet to orbit and back' are far, far different than those of 'getting from orbit around one planet to orbit around another'. In a proper sci-fi setting, the size and configuration is limited only by the author's imagination. These include, but are not limited to: drop ship, assault shuttle, landing craft. Drop ships can go by many different names. If the ship is armed and/or the troops involved happen to be reinforcements, it may be the vehicle of a Gunship Rescue.

Some are effectively a Military Mashup Machine between a space shuttle and a transport helicopter, while others are full-sized landing craft that are substantially larger.

A common vehicle in Military Science Fiction: A Drop Ship is a craft used to carry troops, vehicles and/or supplies from an orbiting ship to the surface of a planet or natural satellite and back, sometimes while under fire.