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Mistel
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Also known as Huckepack, Piggyback aircraft

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

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  • Design and development
  • Warhead and operational history
  • Surviving aircraft
  • Variants
  • Operators
  • See also
  • References
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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').

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mistel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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