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{{quote|''"We're the ''Flying Elvises''! Utah chapter!"''|''Honeymoon In Vegas''}}

Simply put, people falling from the sky, or at least a great height, then landing safely, at least for them. This is accomplished in [[Real Life]] via parachutes or gliders, but in [[Speculative Fiction]] it can be done through [[Powered Armor]], [[Jet Pack|Jet Packs]], [[Drop Pod|special pods]], or [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. Usually an airplane is involved, but balloons, cliffs, a [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]], a tall building, or even a [[Floating Continent|magic castle]] will do.

Simply put, people falling from the sky, or at least a great height, then landing safely, at least for them. This is accomplished in [[Real Life]] via parachutes or gliders, but in [[Speculative Fiction]] it can be done through [[Powered Armor]], [[Jet Pack|Jet Packs]], [[Drop Pod|special pods]], or [[Applied Phlebotinum]] - or, if you're indestructible, a "hard drop" using only the ground to break your fall. Usually an airplane is involved, but balloons, cliffs, a [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]], a tall building, or even a [[Floating Continent|magic castle]] will do.

Has nothing to do with the song it takes its name from.

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** In ''Tiberian Sun'', there's also the elite Orbital Drop Soldiers--veteran soldiers who arrive in drop-pods equipped with machineguns, clearing the drop-zone the hard way. More like ''hailing'' men, really.

** ''Tiberium Wars'' allows for the rapid orbital deployment of Zone Troopers, which gets you three squads of Troopers anywhere on the map for only a few thousand credits, actually ''saving'' you a bit of cash and putting a dozen railguns into a position where they can inflict a ''lot'' of agony.

** ''Generals'' gives this ability to the USA faction, allowing them to deploy up to 24 Rangers via paradrop. In the ''Zero Hour'' [[Expansion Pack]], this is also available to the Chinese Infantry General. ~~[[Tropers Do It Without Notability|~~The Chinese Tank General does it with]] [[Tank Goodness|tanks]].

** ''Generals'' gives this ability to the USA faction, allowing them to deploy up to 24 Rangers via paradrop. In the ''Zero Hour'' [[Expansion Pack]], this is also available to the Chinese Infantry General. The Chinese Tank General does it with [[Tank Goodness|tanks]].

** ''Red Alert 3'' gives the Allies the Century Bomber, which can load a group of infantry and then drop them at a selected location; the Soviets have the Bullfrog, which launches infantry (or [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears]]) via a machine called the "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|man-cannon]]".

* ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'' has a mission in which you protect dropping paratroopers and their transports from being shot by enemy gun placements. The whole game is a re-envisioning of [[World War II]] in the [[Ace Combat]] world, so the comparison is apt.

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