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Mistel
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|A captured example of a Mistel trainer. United States Army personnel examined the aircraft. thumb|right|Ju 88H and Fw 190 combined to form a model 3B Mistel
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9 sectionsContents
- Design and development
- Warhead and operational history
- Surviving aircraft
- Variants
- Operators
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|300px|A captured example of a Mistel trainer. United States Army personnel examined the aircraft. thumb|right|Ju 88H and Fw 190 combined to form a model 3B Mistel
Mistel (German, 'mistletoe', a parasitic plant) was the larger, unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during the later stages of World War II. The composite comprised a small piloted control aircraft mounted above a large explosives-carrying drone, the , and as a whole was referred to as the Huckepack ('Piggyback'), also known as the Beethoven-Gerät ('Beethoven Device') or Vati und Sohn ('Daddy and Son').