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Half the point of special forces is to be covert, which is made hard when your transportation is a giant rocket streaking through the suborbital zone.


But imagine the PsyOps impact of the enemy looking up and seeing the US raining down literal ODSTs on them ;)

Realistically, they'd be dropping into an allied base in-theatre with a pad able to support a Starship landing, and then taking conventional means the rest of the way. Of course, I suspect that when it comes to "drop operators from space" vs. "train extra operators who can be forward deployed," the latter is probably going to be way more cost efficient. Would make for a cool movie though.


Imagine how much of a sitting duck is a rocket glowing infrared on a ballistic trajectory to the landing site.


Like an aircraft carrier, good at projecting power below a certain threshold of conflict and capability where they turn into a liability.




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