dragon ship noun any of several US helicopter gunships equipped with Gatling guns during the Vietnam war US,1967
We could hear the Dragon Ship pilots[.] — Vernon Walters, SilentMissions, p. 425, 1978
— Linda Reinberg, IntheField, p. 67, 1991
Troops discovered that the “dragon ships” were especially effective in breaking up enemy night attacks. — Roger E. Bilstein, FlightinAmerica, p. 252, 2001