Something which is actually bothers me when reading about attempts to take out great dragons. Shadowrun is 60 years in the future, and technology had all that time to develop.
Yet reading about attempts to kill great dragons strongly remind of what a military of a modern day third world country might try.
Great dragons are suppose to be a major treat to national security of major countries. Lets imagine that you have a major air based treat to say modern USA, which is already caused civilian casualties is tens of thousands range. The treat is also proved to be immune to conventional weapons.
I wouldn't expect a few helicopters, and a few fighters. I would expect 100 interceptors, armed with heat seeking air-air missiles with a tactical nuclear warheads. And the target being terminated within seconds of engagement.
And that is only speaking of unclassified military capabilities.
Going to more classified stuff, there are fun weapons like
Casaba-Howitzer- a nuclear shaped charge based directed energy weapon. To put it short, it takes a city killing nuke, and concentrates most of energy released into a directed energy ray.
Which means you could put say a 10 megaton version on a satellite in a low orbit, and put enough of those in orbit to cover territory of the selected country. Combined with surveillance satellites, it would allow you to instantly vaporize any great dragon taking dragon form which entered your territory.
And Casaba-Howitzer was a weapon developed in sixties. It is
very likely that military has more advanced weapons today.
Which leads to question- what happened to military in Shadowrun, and why any of great dragons which proved to be a treat to national security is still alive?