Chimeran Dropship

The Chimeran Dropship, also known as "buzzards", are a type of armed shuttle that provide limited levels of close air support for ground troops.

Description
Advanced propulsion units allow the craft to create a dramatic lift allowing them to be better armored than the Human equivalent aircraft. Dropships are tasked with bringing in new Chimeran troops into battle through the use of external transport containers.

Each transport is capable of holding multiple Chimeran squads to ensure maximum tactical flexibility. These containers can also be dropped from low altitude directly into the combat zone for a speedy delivery of troops.

Resistance: Fall of Man
In Resistance: Fall of Man, dropships are mostly seen deploying Chimera reinforcements (by landing and by dropping box-shaped containers filled with troops) at pivotal parts of the game, such as in Manchester where British forces were procuring a captured Angel.

Resistance 2
They reappear in Resistance 2, mostly in the Co-op campaign. At times, they can been seen among the Chimeran fleet. The dropships have been radically redesigned since the first game and are seen without their transport containers.

Resistance: Retribution
In Resistance: Retribution, dropships are never seen dropping off units, but rather, for the first time, attack the player, requiring him/her to destroy the vessels.

Resistance: Retribution
In Resistance Retribution, dropships can be destroyed easily with a LAARK. But if you have an Auger-FS, its shield can be used to reflect a dropship's missiles, allowing its projectiles to destroy the vessel in less than a minute.