Combat dropping AFV's?

[MountainMan]

Genrally, keeping the crew inside an AFV while dropping it is a bad idea:

1. Landing impact shakes the crew up inside a vehicle full of sharp edges. Additionally, the human spine does not tolerate rapid vertical compression very well, and if your back is not perfectly straight when you hit, it tolerates the additional longitudinal stresses even less.

2. If the vehicle fails to set itself free automatically, the crew has to get out and do it manually anyway.

3. If they do not get out of the vehicle, they cannot inspect for damage that may be significant in combat.

Far better to run up, free the vehicle, look it over quickly, and go from there. The few seconds lost are well worth it in terms of survival.