Combine Dropship



First Seen: Half-Life 2, Chapter Four - Water Hazard
 * Health total: N/A
 * Weapon damage: Pulse Turret (only on soldier carrier) (3)
 * Entity:  (only stays in one spot if spawned during play)

Resembling a crab-like creature with ten limbs, the dropship serves as the primary aerial transport unit of the Combine. They are used for any situation that requires fast air transport, mostly for attacks on remote locations. Dropships are also used as minelayers for deploying rollermines.

The front and two rearmost pairs of legs contain the engines that give the dropship lift and movement. The front two legs also hold retractable wings, used for maneuvering. The middle four legs are tipped with large gripping pads, and are used to carry various forms of cargo. Depiction of the dropship using the Half-Life 2 Model Viewer shows that the pads are modeled after, and are identical to the mouths of lampreys.

Dropships can transport most Combine forces, and they have been seen transporting Combine APCs, striders, rollermines as well as both Civil Protection and Overwatch soldiers in troop-carriers. Gordon Freeman's dune buggy is also stolen and carried away by a dropship after the battle at Lighthouse Point.

The Overwatch soldiers and Civil Protection are transported in large, streamlined containers, equipped with a powerful, highly-accurate mounted pulse turret. The fact that all these objects are metal suggests that there may be some kind of magnet on the bottom of the dropship.

Dropships are unarmed, harmless and invulnerable to all attacks.(though at the end of Half-Life 2, Alyx's robot "Dog" jumps on one and attacks it) The cargo being held, however, is unshielded and open to damage.