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Transports. We all know them. Slow. Weaponless. Altogether, quite vulnerable. But what if you could fix that little issue? In comes this thing
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== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[Star Wars]]''. The Millennium Falcon. Originally a stock light freighter, but has since been upgraded with souped up drives, heavy-duty quad laser cannons, concussion missiles, and a sensor suite that's like seeing the future. And, insanely enough, Mandalorian Kom'rk ("Gauntlet starfighter") is both a [[Space Fighter]] and troop transport.▼
** AT-AT ("All Terrain Armored Transport") is APC / heavy self-propelled artillery hybrid.
* In the ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' remake, the survivors turn a tour bus into an armoured zombie killing death machine (complete with slots that let them use chainsaws to get rid of undead hitchers) in order to make a break towards the pier.▼
* The movie ''[[The Pentagon Wars]]'' is about a Real Life development project that went this way: the Bradley Fighting Vehicle started out as a pure troop transport vehicle, but as development continued it acquired more and more features of a tank.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Car Wars]]''. Big rig trucks are often armed with extensive weaponry in case they're attacked by bandits or have to engage in autodueling.▼
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]''. Many interstellar civilizations used armed transports and Q-ships to defend convoys from Orion pirates and other raiders.▼
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carrier - troop transport <s>helicopter</s> aircraft/hovercraft (12 + crew including two door gunners) that is also gunship. And its variant Vendetta is a minor transport (for 6) / heavy gunship (tank-killer), vehicle/container transport variant Sky Talon is still a gunship, if more modestly armed<ref>this can be metagame motivated: seeing how Sky Talon is small and delivers only a pair of [[Chicken Walker|Sentinel]]s (which can be simply dropped with a grav chute without risk of interception en route), or a Tauros (which is a fast vehicle anyway), and tabletop already starts at a battlefield, it's mostly useless as a transport and mostly is just a discount gunship thrown in with those vehicles; while [[In-Universe]] it should be good as a transport for scouts (who use either of those vehicles) and (as a fast, vertically landing, armoured flying transport) immeasurably more valuable for resupply of units that cannot be easily reached by ground transport; at least in ''[[Dawn of War]] 2'' it drops ''[[The Turret Master|turrets]]''.</ref>; though more versatile gunship variant Vulture is not a transport.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Battlefield]] 2142'': With the Air Transports filled with various members of a squad. Most commonly being Engineers, a Medic/Soldier, and Supports.
* ''[[Supreme Commander]]'': A T1 or T2 Dropship loaded with T1 Light Assault Bots. The Cybrans can stick a T2 Mobile Stealth Field Generator with the LAB's to make it impossible to shoot down early without Omni-Sensors. In Forged Alliance,the UEF gets a T3 Dropship with a self-projected shield to jack survivability. The in-house term is "Ghetto Gunship"
* ''[[Twisted Metal]]'': Just look at half the vehicles, you'll see it.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The AC-130 gunship. It's simply a Hercules cargo plane with guns and ammo rolled on board,pointing out the port side. The AC-47 and AC-119 having a similar history.
* Maybe not "a near unstoppable force of destruction", but a technical is a pickup truck fitted with guns (
* During the American Civil War the Confederacy salvaged the USS Merrimack and outfitted it with iron plating, renaming it the CSS Virginia.
▲== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* [[Car Wars]]. Big rig trucks are often armed with extensive weaponry in case they're attacked by bandits or have to engage in autodueling.
▲* [[Star Fleet Battles]]. Many interstellar civilizations used armed transports and Q-ships to defend convoys from Orion pirates and other raiders.
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* [[Star Wars]]. The Millennium Falcon. Originally a stock light freighter, but has since been upgraded with souped up drives, heavy-duty quad laser cannons, concussion missiles, and a sensor suite that's like seeing the future.
▲* The Batmobiles seen in The Dark Knight Returns and [[Batman]] Begins.
▲* In the ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004]]'' remake, the survivors turn a tour bus into an armoured zombie killing death machine (complete with slots that let them use chainsaws to get rid of undead hitchers) in order to make a break towards the pier.
▲* ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'' with their modified vehicles.
▲* The movie [[The Pentagon Wars]] is about a Real Life development project that went this way: the Bradley Fighting Vehicle started out as a pure troop transport vehicle, but as development continued it acquired more and more features of a tank.
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