RE: Air dropped Units

H. Beam Piper's novels also had heavy "contra-gravity" armored vehicles
(some of which were closer to Barsoomian air-battleships than tanks).

Are you sure you mean PATLABOR?  I thought the air-dropped Helldiver was
in
the VOTOMS series.

-----Original Message-----
From: dadams@parracity.nsw.gov.au [mailto:dadams@parracity.nsw.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:01 AM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Air dropped Units

1. Some Grav vehicals in scifi (Traveller especially, but also Renegade
Legion)
are able to insert orbitally under their own power.

2. The Patlabor Anime/Manga series had the Helldiver AV97 labor, which
is
about
size 3-4, being deployed from huge aircraft (It solved the breaking
problem
by
being lightweight, having built in aerobrakes and aslo had a disposable
rocket
engine for breaking as well. In one episode, a Helldiver lost its chute,
and
was
able to survive landing by aerobraking alone, although the machine was
an
operational kill with its legs stuffed).