

He's been kept alive throughout history by scales that can stop blade, arrow, bolt, and anti-personnel bullet, up to a ordinary slug of 23mm caliber and armor-piercing slugs short of 12.7mm caliber. In the left corner, we have our big, scaly, fire-breathing, livestock-chomping dragon. Furthermore, we are discussing tactics and strategy here, not the level of technology needed. First off - this differs from our history questions on this topic in that we are dealing with modern assets here, not historical ones, and from this question in that our military units are out to slay the dragon, not recruit and utilize him.
