Dragon Fighter is a Sci Fi Pictures original film that premiered on January 4, 2003 and was directed by Phillip J. Roth.
In England in the Middle Ages, a town is decimated by a dragon and six knights vow to kill the creature in its lair.
One thousand years later, in the nearby desert of California, Captain David Carver transports Dr. Ian Drakovitch to an ultra-secret underground research facility, where scientists specialize in cloning endangered or extinct animals.
Russian security officer Captain Sergei Petrov introduces him to Dr. Meredith Winter, Dr. Greg Travis, Kevin Korisch, and Bailey Kent.
Ian orders the fossil samples to be put inside a cloning chamber and says that the whole animal should reform within 24 hours.
Evading the dragon, David returns to the vent, reaches a storage box and reboots the elevator's system manually.
Ian opens a side door to take pictures of the dragon, which knocks him out of the helicopter, causing him to fall to his death.
It moves in a traditional theropodian stance with its long, dexterous arms folded and held near, but not to, its chest; the wings stay tight to its back when not in use.
Its endothermic nature combined with breathing out fire is its only serious fault because it needs to stay in cooler areas to keep from suffering from heat stroke or exhaustion, so it keeps near the air conditioning vents in the facility.
The dragon can also breathe a napalm-like stream of fire, fly/glide and condense the flames into explosive fireballs with the added addition of having tightly interlocked armored scales that is sturdy enough to withstand many bullet shots, even a shotgun cannot breach the scaly skin of the flying reptile.