Wraith Dart

The Wraith dart is a small, one-man attack craft capable of fitting through a Stargate, first seen in "Rising". They generate a loud, distinctive sound when flying in an atmosphere. Darts lack hyperdrives and rely on Stargates or larger vessels to travel around the galaxy. The dart's main role is to capture humans for feeding, dematerializing them using a culling beam mounted on its underside. Large numbers of darts are carried by Wraith hive ships and cruisers. In ship-to-ship combat, they are deployed as dogfighters and as point defense against missiles. If a dart's mothership is destroyed, they will perform kamikaze attacks on nearby enemy targets. Like other Wraith ships, darts are partially organic. The canopy of a Wraith dart is composed of energy and is opaque when active, functioning as a giant HUD. Darts are armed with a pair of forward-firing energy weapons, capable of destroying a puddle jumper with a direct hit. Sustained machine gun fire is sufficient to bring down a dart. John Sheppard learns how to fly a dart in the season 2 episode "The Lost Boys".