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Some regiments exist within the Imperial Guard who specialise in arriving on the battlefield from the skies. Such regiments are termed Drop or Drop Troop Regiments. Lightly armed and equipped (although not as light as Light Infantry), Drop Troop Regiments typically attack from behind enemy lines, or are dropped right on top of enemy defences. All personnel in a Drop Regiment will be able to be equipped with [[grav-chutes]], although this is not their only method of attack. Such regiments will also feature a large amount of airborne vehicles such as the [[Valkyrie]] troop carrier or [[Vulture]] gunship.
With no tanks or other heavily armoured vehicles to land in an assault, the highly mobile drop regiments are often tasked with forming the initial beachhead in an assault or capturing and holding an important location until the armoured reinforcements can arrive to relieve them. This means that the casualty rate amongst Drop Regiments tends to be higher then than that of "regular" Imperial Guard units, as the regiments are ill equipped for a protracted fight with a superior force.
Regiments of Drop Troops often make use of specially adapted equipment such as [[Drop Sentinel]], [[Cyclops]] and [[Sentry Gun]]. These machines are often dropped into combat via Grav-chutes alongside the Troopers or deployed from the holds of Valkyries.<sup>3</sup>
