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Subject: How many soldiers can fit into a Pelican?

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Before anybody says it, the Fall of Reach was retconned by having the Spartan children (all 75) in an Albatross.

Anyway I'm doing a couple pieces of Halo fan art and I need to know how many seats in a Pelican there are for troops.

  • 04.27.2012 10:39 PM PDT

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If memory serves me correct, about 5/6 seats on each side.

[Edited on 04.27.2012 10:56 PM PDT]

  • 04.27.2012 10:53 PM PDT

Halopedia says 10 seated with 5 standing. But it can be modified to hold more.

  • 04.28.2012 3:36 PM PDT

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It can vary. In First Strike, the 'blood-tray' of the Pelican was extended to fit all the Spartan-IIs (minus John, linda and James) in it.

  • 04.28.2012 3:45 PM PDT

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I'd say 75, if you were to squeeze and everyone was standing.

Normally, 24. I remember it was 12 seats on each side.

  • 04.28.2012 3:55 PM PDT

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Around 20

  • 04.28.2012 7:02 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

20 (max) seems about right for the standard Pelican. As far as 75 Spartans that's been retconned to an Albatross. Even from the images I've seen of modified Pelicans to hold more troops, there's still not enough room to hold 33 Spartans wearing MJOLNIR armor. Multiple Pelicans though seems a bit more logical.


[Edited on 04.28.2012 7:25 PM PDT]

  • 04.28.2012 7:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: ImmortalJoshua
20 (max) seems about right for the standard Pelican. As far as 75 Spartans that's been retconned to an Albatross. Even from the images I've seen of modified Pelicans to hold more troops, there's still not enough room to hold 33 Spartans wearing MJOLNIR armor. Multiple Pelicans though seems a bit more logical.
room? i think it would be too heavy.

  • 04.29.2012 7:45 AM PDT

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In our training they taught us that a pelican could fit 28 soldiers as a maximum or 8 spartans (due to weight issues).

  • 04.29.2012 8:26 AM PDT

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Over 9000.

Just kidding, I have no idea.

  • 04.29.2012 8:32 AM PDT
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8 per side sitting, maybe double that amount standing, although abit cramped.

Also that small space near the cockpit.

  • 04.29.2012 8:34 AM PDT

Ten soldiers each side.

  • 04.29.2012 8:35 AM PDT

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I don't see why a Pelican would have issues with holding 30 MJOLNIR donning Spartans, after all, they weight about 500 kilos each. Together they would weight around 15,000 - 16,500 kilos.

A Scorpion Tank weighs 66 metric tons, more than four times that weight and it is still transportable via Pelican with troopers inside of said dropship.

  • 04.29.2012 10:08 AM PDT

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Passengers:
Ten seats in internal bay amidships fifteen people standing and sitting (these numbers are doubled in case the ship carries a troop deployment pod).

Cargo capacity:
70 tons on hoist(anything over 35 tons slows speed considerably).

  • 04.29.2012 10:44 AM PDT

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They retconned that? Good move actually, I can't see 75 humans, even if small, fitting into a Pelican. Albatross seems at least plausible.

  • 04.29.2012 4:15 PM PDT

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It varies. But crammed to maximum, I'd say around 20.

  • 04.30.2012 8:46 AM PDT
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I do believe it is ten seats, with some standing room.

  • 04.30.2012 3:27 PM PDT

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  • 04.30.2012 3:33 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

It's not just that. After looking at some Pelican models, I'd say a standard Pelican is built to hold 10 soldiers (seated) with possibly 5 or so more standing. MJOLNIR suited up Spartan-IIs are going to take up a lot of space. I doubt that a standard Pelican could hold 20+ Spartan-IIs.

  • 05.01.2012 8:56 PM PDT