Pelican | Most Detailed Breakdown

In this episode: We give the D77-TC Pelican the Most Detailed Treatment!

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[DezzarTac]

I admit I have a problem: I am utterly obsessed with the Pelican. I love all the human vehicles from the original game, but the Pelican takes the cake, eats it, and bakes another cake.

[chippsdubbo]

"You don't have the fire power sir"

"No... But I've got the mass"

[battlelord]

Installation 00: Most Detailed Pelican video

U.S. Military: (Takes notes)

[piercepayumo]

Foe Hammer: You know our motto, "We deliver".

[MajicMarco]

"It can land virtually anywhere."
Pelican pilot: Land?

[VS-]

See, theirs one military equipment that has been here for more than 200 years...

Knives.

[thomasa]

“The pelican doesn’t look that big”
Well no, not from a 7’ tall half ton point of view.

[The_Viscount]

I know this ship was inspired by the Colonial Marines dropship, but the pelican blows it away.

[StacheMan]

Y'know, the Warthog being hydrogen powered makes more sense once you take into account the Pelican (and presumably all the other dropships and other aerospace craft in UNSC service) being fueled by hydrogen. It's the space going future equivalent of the current US military requirement that every vehicle in inventory be capable of running on JP8 (their preferred blend of jet fuel), even if its not ideal for the performance or efficiency of the particular platform, because its one less logistical hurdle to overcome when the system gets stressed.
And that's just with one nation on one planet (that's generally regarded as being pretty damn good at logistics), take space travel and accompanying limits in cargo volume into account and its a lot easier for the system to get stressed to a point where delivery of multiple different fuel types to the combat zone in sufficient quantity to fulfill needs becomes difficult or impossible, so they cut it down. No more fussing about with "30th Division needs X amount of petrol, Y diesel. No I said Z diesel, you ingrate!", instead UNSC logistics just goes "You get hydrogen! And you get hydrogen! So do you! Everyone gets hydrogen!"

[teryn]

Finally something about the workhorse of UNSC!

[HildegardActual]

Fell in love with the Pelican the moment I saw it.

[teryn]

Technically a pelican will save your ass by giving you something to use like ammo, tanks, and personnel, and close air support

"REMEMBER ECHO"

[siphonicstorm]

The Pelican was always my favorite dropship in Halo. To be honest, I'd prefer to be transported by a Pelican. In my opinion, I prefer the D-77 Pelican dropship over the D-79 models.

[thermalvision]

3:34 The Mosin Nagant comes close as it was first produced in 1891. The USS Consitution and HMS Victory are still both technically active warships and they were launched in 1797 and 1765 respectively, though as neither has seen combat in over 200 years, I don't think they count.

[jamesmartel]

Playing Combat Evolved as a kid, me and my friends, always said just wait till halo 2 we will get to fly a pelican !! I absolutely adore this vehicle such a great design

[ROBOHOLIC]

Our budget only allows for one crashed Pelican per mission.

[jamesneumann]

I don't know of any military equipment still in use from the 1860's but the Madsen MG was first introduced in the 1890's, its last know use was in 2016 by the Brazilian Military Police.

[ShaneA]

Pilot: "York send that little green guy up here."

York: "You heard her Delta, go on."

[herbderbler]

2120 youtuber: I challenge you to find a single example of military equipment still in use today after being originally introduced in the 1950s.
2120 commenter: B-52 Stratofortress, what's my prize?

[RSAleft]

I do love how Bungie really thought out the Pelican and how she could operate.. with out realizing it completely mind you but you can get this brick to fly and that makes me so happy. The Pelican is one of my favorite drop ships of all time. Knowing she's similar to a 130 makes me just smile even more!