Type-26 Aerial Artillery Platform

The Type-49 Aerial Artillery Platform, nicknamed the Chimera for its trio of mounted plasma mortars, is a Covenant artillery gunship usually employed in their scorched earth tactics.

Engine
Chimeras use a small-scale version of the seen on Covenant capital ships, providing it with the enormous amounts of power required to stay airborne and powering its weapon systems.

Dragon
An extremely rare variant of the Chimera removed the plasma mortars and devoted its power to a single like those seen on, along with a shield generator normally seen only on. It was seen on only a few occasions during the Human-Covenant War; once during the Harvest Campaigns, laying waste to UNSC ground forces, and again at Reach, brought down only because of combined ground and orbital strikes. These two were believed to be the same, unique vehicle. However, during the Battle of Japan, a damaged Chimera was apparently repaired by the order of the Jiralhanae Chieftain Attilus, cannibalizing several other vehicles, and sported both a focus cannon and plasma mortars in addition to anti-infantry gun turrets to recreate the vehicle.