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    capable parasite fighters. With the advent of long-range fighters equipped with air-to-air missiles, and aerial refueling, parasite fighters fell out...
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    McDonnell XF-85 Goblin (category Parasite aircraft)
    intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend bombers from hostile interceptor...
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  • continued into the jet age, with large aircraft carrying fully capable parasite fighters or reconnaissance drones, though none entered service. A composite...
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    again in the 1960s, but did not result in any production aircraft. Parasite fighters — small aircraft designed to be carried by a specialized bomber —...
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    in China TC-3 and TC-7, two US Army Corps non-rigid blimps used for parasite fighter trials during 1923–24 UConn Lumpy, an airship built and flown in 1975...
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    Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat. This list does not aim to include attack aircraft primarily intended...
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  • with folding wings Arado E.381 I - Parasite fighter Arado E.381 II - Parasite fighter Arado E.381 III - Parasite fighter Arado E.385 Arado E.390 Arado E...
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    This is a list of fighter aircraft used by the United States. This includes those of the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, 1924–1962...
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    "mother ship" for the Soviet parasite fighter is actually a Boeing B-50, a development of the B-29. ; The black fighter that appears near the finale,...
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    experimental work, particularly in the development of the American parasite fighter program, was decommissioned in 1932. The second of four vessels to...
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    Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk (category Parasite aircraft)
    1930s biplane fighter aircraft that was carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and Macon. It is an example of a parasite fighter, a small airplane...
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  • a variant of the B-17 Flying Fortress F9C Sparrowhawk, a biplane parasite fighter from the 1930s Falcon 9, a rocket of SpaceX Falconar F9A, a Canadian...
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    Arado E.381 (category Parasite aircraft)
    The Arado E.381 (Kleinstjäger – "smallest fighter") was a proposed parasite fighter aircraft. Conceived by Arado Flugzeugwerke in December 1944 for Germany's...
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    launching used an airship as a carrier and docking station for biplane parasite fighters. These planes would connect to their mothership through a trapeze-like...
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    Messerschmitt from mid-July 1938 onwards, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in particular the Bf 109 and Me 262. The company survived in...
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    FICON project (category Parasite aircraft)
    Thunderflash parasite fighter in its bomb bay. Earlier wingtip coupling experiments included Tip Tow, which were attempts at carrying fighters connected...
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  • McDonnell F-85 Goblin parasite fighters. Operational F-85-carrying B-36s were to have been capable of refueling and rearming their fighters in flight, while...
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  • 1956 Tu-99: prototype turbojet version of the Tu-96 Tu-100: proposed parasite fighter, 1953 Tu-101: assault transport project, 1952 Tu-102: 40-seat turboprop...
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    the B-36 with its own fighter defense in the form of parasite aircraft carried partially or wholly in a bomb bay. One parasite aircraft was the diminutive...
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  • 6, 1939, by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and crewed spacecraft including the Mercury...
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    trials as a parasite fighter. The aircraft used Airship R23 as a mothership. By mid-1918, the Camel had become obsolescent as a day fighter as its climb...
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    Messerschmitt Me 328 (category Parasite aircraft)
    1941, having been envisioned as a parasite aircraft that would protect Luftwaffe bomber formations from Allied fighter aircraft. Being largely composed...
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    XF-85 'parasite fighter'. This fighter was intended to be carried by the Convair B-36 on long-range missions to protect it from Soviet fighters. Another...
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    Navy in 1957; it was one of the Navy's first supersonic fighters and its last all-gun fighter. The same basic design was later heavily revised and shortened...
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    were the two United States Army Air Corps non-rigid blimps used for parasite fighter trials conducted in 1923–24. A single Sperry Messenger biplane was...
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    mothership. This included being rigged for carrying the experimental parasite fighter aircraft, such as the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin and Republic F-84 Thunderjets...
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    a sesquiplane into a parasol-wing monoplane. The I-4 was used as a parasite fighter in experiments with the Tupolev TB-1 bomber. The aircraft was in Soviet...
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  • Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight is a side-scrolling action platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System...
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    an RP-1 Izumrud radar. Also known as the MiG-15P. Burlaki Proposed parasite fighter based on the MiG-15bis that would be towed behind a Tupolev Tu-4 via...
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  • was appointed president in 1935. In 1937, the company developed the P-36 fighter aircraft, resulting in the largest peacetime aircraft order ever given...
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