Type-52 Ultra Heavy Assault Barge

"Hard to convince yourself the Covenant can be beaten, when you know they have war machines like that out there."

- UNSC Marine during the Harvest Campaign.

The Dragon, officially designated the Type-49 Ultra Heavy Assault Barge, was a Covenant ground assault aircraft and variant of the Type-49 Aerial Artillery Platform used during the. Fortunately, it was an extremely rare vehicle, only seen a few times during the war, and thought to be a unique design used by a high-ranking leader of the Covenant military.