Drop pod

Drop pods were physical reentry vehicles designed for a single soldier to be dropped in from orbital command stations located all over the globe, allowing GDI to project physical force at any site in the globe mere minutes after they were needed. This assisted GDI with its guerrila containment policy; wherever Nod would be, GDI would be there very soon after Nod appeared.

Unfortunately, there was little protection for the infantry once he emerged from the drop pod, so it was felt that some method of landing-site clearance was necessary. Therefore, a machine gun was built into the nose of the drop pod that assisted the clearing process. These machine guns were instrumental in the destruction of a cyborg during the Second Tiberium War. As drop pods were only a disposable delivery system, little information about them is available.