Editing D77H-TCI Pelican

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{{Ship class infobox
|name = Dropship 77 Heavy-Troop Carrier/Infantry
|image = [[File:H3 - D77H-TCI.png|300px]]
|model = D77H-TCI Pelican (Heavy/Infantry variant)
|class = [[Dropship]]/gunship
|manufacturer = [[Misriah Armory]]<ref>''Halo: Arms Race''</ref>
|modifier =
|sysmods =
|length = {{Convert|30.5|m|ft}}<ref name="ENC">'''''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''''', ''page 252''</ref>
|width = {{Convert|23.4|m|ft}}{{Ref/Reuse|ENC}}
|height = {{Convert|10.0|m|ft}}{{fact}}
|mass =
|max speed space =
|max speed air =
|engine =
*Two main engines housed in middle section of ship
*Ten maneuvering thrusters housed in four vector pylons
|slipspace drive = None
|poweroutput =
|shield gen = Heat and radiation shielding to protect occupants 
|sensor =
|target =
|navigation =
|avionics =
|countermeasures =
|armament =
*One chin-mounted weapon {{c|optional}}
**Rotary machine gun<ref name="Halo 2">''[[Halo 2]]''</ref>
**[[M638 Autocannon|M638 20mm autocannon]]{{Ref/Game|Id=reach|Game=Halo: Reach}}
**40mm chain gun<ref name="The Flood">'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''page 39''</ref>
**[[70mm chain gun]]{{Ref/Reuse|The Flood}}
*Two [[ANVIL-II Air-to-Surface Missile]] pods {{c|Six missiles per pod}}
*One rear-mounted AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun
|complement =*One [[M808 Scorpion]] ''or''
*One [[M12 Warthog]] ''or''
*Four to six [[resupply canister]]s
;''and''
*One or two [[M274 Ultra-Light All-Terrain Vehicle]]s {{c|internally and externally}}
|crew = *One [[pilot]]
*One co-pilot
*One crew chief
|skeleton = One pilot with an [[Artificial intelligence|AI construct]]
|passengers = Ten seats in internal troop bay amidships, plus an additional five people sitting: (These numbers are doubled in case the ship carries a [[troop deployment pod]].)
|capacity = 70 tons on hoist (Anything over 35 tons slows speed considerably)
|othersystems =
|role = [[Dropship]], [[wikipedia:Air Assault|air assault]]/[[wikipedia:Close Air Support|close air support]]
|commission = 
|firstsight = 
|era = *[[Insurrection]]{{Ref/Film|Id=origins|Film=Halo Legends|Story=Origins}}
*[[Human-Covenant War]]{{Ref/Game|Id=halo3|Game=Halo 3}}
*[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]{{Ref/Game|Id=hsa|Halo: Spartan Assault}}
*[[Created conflict]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=SOR|Novel=Halo: Shadows of Reach}}
|affiliation = [[United Nations Space Command]]
}}
The '''D77H-TCI Pelican''', formally known as the '''Dropship 77 Heavy-Troop Carrier/Infantry''' and more commonly known as the '''Pelican''', is a newer model of the [[D77-TC Pelican]] dropship.

==Specifications==
===Design details===
The D77H-TCI Pelican is the primary tactical support aircraft of the UNSC. Like the previous model, the D77H-TCI Pelican serves a multi-role purpose. The dropship is fully capable of atmospheric flight and can land almost anywhere without difficulty. It is also capable of limited spaceflight, making it the prime troop transport of the UNSC.

There are several interior and exterior design differences between the D77-TC and D77H-TCI models. Most notably difference is in the cockpit area. Instead of the pilot and co-pilot sitting next to each other, the co-pilot is seated behind and above the pilot, and the controls and instrument panels are rearranged and upgraded. A small [[holotank]] is installed in the cockpit, allowing an artificial intelligence to project its holographic [[avatar]] to the craft's pilots.

===Payload capacity===
There are also differences in the bay of the craft: the so-called "blood tray".<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 203''</ref> Although the D77H-TCI Pelican carries the same number of passengers as its predecessor, its troop-bay is more flexible, able to carry up to two [[M274 Ultra-Light All-Terrain Vehicle|M274 Mongoose ULATVs]] internally, in addition to ten passengers. Like the original models, the D77H-TCI's tail-mounted magnetic clamps are capable of carrying an [[M12 Force Application Vehicle|M12 Warthog FAV]], an [[M808 Main Battle Tank|M808 Scorpion MBT]], or several [[resupply canister]]s.

===Armament===
The D77H-TCI Pelican, like its predecessor, can be armed with a 40mm or [[70mm chain gun]], an [[M638 Autocannon|M638 20mm autocannon]], a rotary machine gun, or a pair of twin-linked rotary cannons. The Pelican is also able to mount a machine gun - typically an [[AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun]] - in its troop bay for supporting ground teams and covering the departure of its passengers, although this prevents it from carrying a vehicle internally. The D77H can also be equipped with [[ANVIL-II Air-to-Surface Missile]] pods; rather than being externally mounted to the wings, these pods are integrated seamlessly into the fuselage. The ANVIL pods can fire up to twelve missiles at once, six from each pod. A gunship version of the D77H is in service as well; this heavily armed version is equipped with more chainguns, missiles, and a large cannon mounted at the ventral-fore of the dropship.<ref>'''Halo 3''', multiplayer level ''[[High Ground]]''</ref>

===Propulsion===
The main engines are mounted in pairs in four nacelles, with one situated on each wing and two at the rear and posterior. The nacelles can articulate independently, thus altering the direction of thrust, referred to as vectoring in aviation; this improves the Pelican's low altitude maneuverability. Four ventral thrusters are identified by markings and a rendered thrust effect, one on each wing nacelle and one on each aft nacelle, allow the drop ship to land and take off vertically. These engines are capable of both space and atmospheric operation. It has eight jet intakes, three on each side and two on top, though intakes are obviously not able to function in a vaccuum. The D77H-TCI, like the D77-TC, although fully capable of orbital insertion, is too small to be equipped with a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]], and thus is incapable of Slipspace travel.

==Operational history==
===Human-Covenant War===
The D77H-TCI Pelican was introduced at least during the [[Insurrection]] and numerous, along with the original [[D77-TC Pelican]], were as well deployed during the battles of the [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Reuse|origins}} During the [[Battle of Chi Ceti]], the [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] company used a D77H-TCI Pelican to make a boarding action against the [[Covenant]] {{Class|CRS|light cruiser}} ''[[Unrelenting]]'' by flying out of the Pelican with thruster packs to board the nearby enemy vessel.{{Ref/Film|Id=as|Film=[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|covenant}}{{Ref/Note|Id=internal|Text=Though the D77H-TCI Pelican was used for external design of the Pelican carrying the Spartan-IIs, its internal design, however, seem to be indentical to that of a [[D79-TC Pelican]].}}

Multiple D77H-TCI Pelicans were in use over course of [[Harvest campaign]] and later [[Battle for Arcadia]] and [[Battle of the Etran Harborage]],{{Ref/Game|HW}} including one such Pelican with a woodland camouflage scheme that was used by the [[Sergeant]] [[John Forge]] and the [[Fire Team Lima]] to board the heavily damaged {{UNSCShip|Prophecy}} to purge its NAV database and recover the survivors of the {{Class|Marathon|heavy cruiser}}.{{Ref/Comic|Id=genesis|Comic=Halo Wars: Genesis}}

In the [[2552|final year]] of the Great War, the D77H-TCI Pelicans may have been used during the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] and the [[Fall of Reach]].{{Ref/Comic|Id=covenant|Comic=Halo: Fall of Reach|Detail=[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Comic=Halo: Fall of Reach|Detail=[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]}}{{Ref/Note|The internal design from the standard D77-TC Pelican was used for all Pelicans in all ''Halo: Fall of Reach'' comics although their external designs in those comics was based on those from ''Halo 3''.}} An extensive number of D77H-TCI Pelicans was prominently deployed during the [[Battle for Earth]],{{Ref/Reuse|halo3}} including during the final [[Space warfare|space battle]] against [[Prophet of Truth]]'s [[Truth's fleet|loyalist armada]] led by ''[[Anodyne Spirit]]''.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI4|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 4|4]]}} They were again deployed extensively by the [[Battle Group Victory]] supported by the [[Sangheili]] [[Covenant separatists|separatist]] [[Fleet of Retribution]] during the [[Battle of Installation 00]], the final battle of the war.{{Ref/Reuse|halo3}} 

===Post-war===
In the aftermath of the Human-Covenant War, many D77H-TCI Pelicans remains in service even when they were supplanted by the [[D79-TC Pelican]]. Numerous D77H-TCI Pelicans were used against a [[Merg Vol's Covenant|splintered Covenant group]] during the [[Battle of Draetheus V]] in [[2554]].{{Ref/Reuse|Id=hsa}} A number of D77H-TCI Pelicans were assigned to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, the flagship of [[UNSC Navy]], and were deployed by the [[Infinity-class supercarrier|supercarrier]] notably during the [[Operation: WHISTLE STOP]] and [[Operation: WOLFE|WOLFE]].{{Ref/Comic|Comic=Halo: Escalation}}{{Ref/Reuse|SOR}}

==Variants==
===Law enforcement variant===
{{Main|D77C-NMPD Pelican}}
The ''D77C-NMPD'' is a variant of the D77H-TCI that was utilized by the [[New Mombasa Police Department]] in [[Kenya]], [[Africa]], on [[Earth]].<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us#/intel/theuniverse/tech/gallery/nmpd-pelican/a08fd318-4bef-4c32-9741-6d15b5f1180d?filter=all '''Halo Waypoint:''' ''D77C-NMPD Pelican'']</ref> It was differentiated from its military counterpart by a black and white color scheme, with the word "POLICE" replacing the traditional "MARINES" on the external hull, and a noted lack of armament. Under the craft's chin, where a machine gun turret or autocannon would normally be installed, were various interchangeable sensors used by the police for aerial surveillance and crowd control. An AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun was typically mounted in the personnel bay of the D77C-NMPD, similarly to the D77 and D77H models.
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File:H3ODST-D77C-NMPD-PelicanDropship.png|The D77C-NMPD Pelican
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==Identified Pelicans==
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*[[Echo 051]]
*[[Kilo 023]]
*[[Oscar 5]]
*[[Oscar 6]]
*[[Oscar 8]]
*[[Oscar 9]]
*[[Victor 398]]

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="160px">
File:Halo3-PelicanDropship.png|A detail fore view of the D77H-TCI Pelican Dropship's cockpit.
File:Landfall Pelicans.jpg|D77H-TCI Pelicans under construction in ''Halo: Landfall''.
File:D77H-TCI Pelican Gunship.jpg|The D77H-TCI in ''Halo 3''.
File:H3 Pelican Anvil-II.jpg|A frontal view of the D77H-TCI, affixed with ANVIL-II pods.
File:HRS D77H TCI Pelican Bottom.jpg|A bottom view of the D77H-TCI.
File:Pelican bay.jpg|The rear seats of a D77H-TCI Pelican.
File:Ark2.JPG|The cockpit of the D77H-TCI.
File:Pelican Cockpit.jpg|Another view of the cockpit.
File:H3 The Pit out of bounds.jpg|D77H-TCI dropship outside ''[[The Pit]]''.
File:The Ark Pelican.jpg|A D77H-TCI dropping off two [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs]] on [[Installation 00]].
File:PelicanCrash-large.jpg|A crashed D77H-TCI on Installation 00.
File:PelicanOnCortana.jpg|A D77H-TCI crashed on ''[[High Charity]]''.
File:Pelicans5e_copy.jpg|A comparison of the D77H-TCI and the D77-TC.
File:Phantom and Pelican.png|A Pelican with a woodland camouflage scheme in ''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''.
File:HWG-SoftSeal-Pelican.png|A partial cross-section of a Pelican with its "soft seal" cover extended.
File:Hornet war.jpg|A squadron of [[AV-14 Hornet|Hornets]] and [[AV-22 Sparrowhawk|Sparrowhawks]] protect a number of Pelican dropships from a [[Protos-pattern Scarab|Protos Scarab]] in an early build of ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
File:PelicanOnHarvest.JPG|Three Pelicans during the [[Harvest Campaign]] in ''Halo Wars''.
File:HW-D77.png|A D77H-TCI in ''Halo Wars''.
File:Homecoming_Pelican_Concept.png|D77H-TCI concept art for ''[[Halo Legends]]: [[Homecoming]]''.
File:H4-Scanned-PelicanDropships.jpg|A pair of Pelicans, possibly D77H-TCIs, over [[Eridanus II]] in ''[[Scanned]]''.
File:HE12 Space Combat2.jpg|Several D77H-TCI along with [[C712 Longsword]]s during the [[mission to Ven III]].
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Landfall]]''
**''[[Halo: Arms Race]]''
**''[[Halo: Combat]]''
**''[[Halo: Last One Standing]]''
*''[[Halo: Uprising]]''
*''[[Halo 3]]''
*''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''
*''[[Halo Wars]]''
*''[[Halo Legends]]''
**''[[Origins]]''
**''[[Homecoming]]''
**''[[Prototype]]''
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
**''[[The Return]]'' {{C|Motion comic only}}
*''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' {{c|Possible appearence}}
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp]]''
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant]]''
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''
*''[[Scanned]]'' {{c|Possible appearence}}
*''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''
*''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]''
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]''
*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]''{{Ref/NoteReuse|internal}}
*''[[Halo Mythos]]''
*''[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]''
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''

==Notes==
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==Sources==
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