Dragon heavy fighter

The fictional F-107 'Lance' heavy fighter, sometimes referred to as the 'Dragon', 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 and was jump capable.

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 is believed to operate on the same principle as "strip fusion" bomb, which separates water into its component elements then ignites them. The target vessel is destroyed from within by the process, leaving little external damage but 100% casualties.

(The mounting of the Flashpak on a torpedo mount was a game code limitation. In the FMV scenes and the novelization of Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, the device was mounted in an internal bay within the underside of the Lance.)

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 2673. 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.