Dragon heavy fighter
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The fictional Dragon heavy fighter-bomber, sometimes referred to as the Black Lance (which was the name of the organization which operated them in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom), was a very powerful heavy fighter in the Wing Commander universe. The Dragon was heavily armed and armored, and quite fast, but not particularly maneuverable (unsurprising, as it carried a very heavy attack loadout designed for everything from dogfighting to anti-ship bombing). It also carried a cloaking device.
The only known variant of the Dragon was in service in the early 2670s and carried two tachyon cannon and two plasma guns as its main armament. Secondary armament was a pair of super-powerful charging guns on the wingtips called Fission Cannon, which could inflict heavy damage on any target. Missiles were four heat seeking and six friend-or-foe missiles, and the fighter carried two hardpoints on which it could mount torpedoes, MIPs (Manned Insertion Pods, an infiltration device) or a circular explosive device called a Flashpak, which operated by impregnating the atmosphere of a target vessel with an incendiary mixture and then igniting it, burning out the ship's interior in a single incandescent flash.
The Dragons were also used for surface attack, to distribute the Black Lance's Gen-Select bioweapon. This grisly task combined with their sinister appearance (black fighters with glowing red bussard intakes) made them a symbol of evil, and they were decommissioned when the Black Lance program was revealed in 2674. Even if the Confederation Senate had chosen to procure more Dragons after the war, the incredible expense of those fighters would have severely limited deployment to a handful of elite squadrons.