Marine troop ships

Marine Troop Ship aka Marine Drop Ship

While both terms are used and both are used to describe a type of specialized Craft used by the United Stars Marine Corps, the official term is : Infantry Assault Deployment Vessel.

Marines themselves use none of these terms and call them Party Poppers (or in Grunt Slang 'Popper'). Each Drop Ship provides facilities for a Company of Marines and all their equipment. ( 100 Marines)

The currently used IADV Ship is the Parris Class. The Parris class is 500 meters long. There are three Drop Ships per Regiment (Each Regiment has three Companies) and there are ten Drop ships to a Cluster Carrier.

Troop ships are Marine Infantry Deployment vessels of old. Ships that have to land to deploy the Marines. Drop Ships completly replaced the Troop Ships (APC) by deploying Marines via Drop-Chutes for planetary or deep space assaults.

Marine Drop Ships are the largest space going vehicle commanded and operated by the Marine Corps themselves. Cluster Carriers and Battleships are operated by the United Stars Navy.