Halo Infinite: 5 Forgotten Covenant Vehicles That Need To Return 

Debuting in Halo Wars, the sleek bladelike Vampire was developed to bolster the ranks of the Covenant air force, and served as a slower, more powerful alternative to the Banshee, possessing greater armor and a larger suite of weapons for destroying enemy aircraft; a Heavy Needle Cannon firing homing projectiles, a Stasis Beam to drain energy and disable enemy vehicles, and a pair of Plasma Cannons for providing light ground support.

In official lore, the Vampire was phased out by the Covenant after the early stages of the war when it became apparent that they didn’t really need dedicated anti-air platforms, and that their versatile multirole Banshees were more than sufficient to destroy the generally inferior UNSC air units.

The Vampire currently lives on as a background element in comics and novels, but has yet to appear in any games beyond Halo Wars. Unlike the rest of the Covenant’s vast, and vastly underused, arsenal of vehicles, the Vampire at least has a decent reason; it’s an aircraft designed to shoot down other aircraft, and those wouldn’t find a lot of use in the ground-heavy combat of the mainline Halo games. Still; a reappearance in Halo Wars 2 would not have been amiss.