drop pod
A vehicle typically seen in science fiction used to rapidly deploy personnel (or equipment) into a battlefield from above, usually from spacecraft in orbit. As their main purpose is rapid insertion, they're often depicted as single-use.
The idea of drop pods first came from Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers in 1959.
Examples in media
- Battletech
- Borderlands
- Call Of Duty
- Halo
- Helldivers
- Gundam
- PlanetSide
- Quake
- Starcraft
- Starship Troopers
- Stellar Blade
- Warhammer 40K
