I was thinking about deploying a unit strait from space.

Have a unit listed as a ship, when it spawns it just falls from the sky, having enough boosters to survive impact, and then its an actor from that point on, no longer able to fly, or its boosters aren't strong enough.

There could be many different units like this, A mech suit with a single soldier inside, a tank that descends land master style, even just a large turret, to balance you make it so they cannot actually deploy whatever they are holding, only way to drop units through them is to have them die, but still useful.

Look at the unitec zealot mech and (sort of) tank. And plenty of other mods have this too.

I've only looked at the more up to date mods, guess its been done, goona go check em out.