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MBB Lampyridae Stealth (1987) |
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Retail Price: $35.00 + Shipping |
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| In the 1980s, the German company Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB) developed a 3/4 testbed for a top-secret Medium Range Missile Fighter (MRMF) code named "Lampyridae" (Firefly). Using a polyhedral airframe that eschewed right angles and curved surfaces to avoid radar detection, the "Lampyridae" completed several successful tethered test flights before the project was cancelled in 1987. Eerily similar to the then top-secret American F-117 Stealth Fighter, the "Lampryridae" was considered by many to actually have superior radar-avoidance properties even though it had only half the number of facets of its American counterpart. |
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