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The Lockheed Senior Peg was a proposal for a stealthy strategic bomber by the
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together with
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for the
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competition, which started in 1979. It competed with and lost to a design by Northrop (''Senior Ice''), which would eventually become the
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. Senior Peg resembles a larger
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