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The Lockheed Senior Peg was an experimental design for a stealth aircraft by the
Lockheed Corporation The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995. Its founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but ot ...
together with
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that competed with and lost to a design by Northrop (Senior Ice), which would eventually become the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. It was created as part of the
Advanced Technology Bomber The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wi ...
competition, which started in 1979. It resembles a larger F-117 Nighthawk.


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{{Lockheed Martin aircraft Senior Peg 1970s United States experimental aircraft Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States Stealth aircraft