MBB Lampyridae. A cancelled West German stealth fighter from 1981.

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Huey89@reddit

And that's why other planes have names like Eurofighter... if you aren't able to pronounce what you want to sell, you should reconsider that naming :)

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Majestic-Village4962@reddit

Naja, es ist ein Arbeitstitel. Das Flugzeug ist nie in Serie gegangen, noch ist es überhaupt geflogen. Alles nur Prototypen.

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Now we know where all the German endeavours in the field of aeronautics went.. into US aircraft. Meanwhile Germans were stopped from producing any final project. As we know now, the US had at all times access to the classified German documentation and the development that started in Germany in 1975, was curiously crowned with a US stealth craft in 1981. Seems a very tight coincidence. The stealth Leopard 1 and KPz70 tanks ended similarily at the finished prototypes.

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ConclusionSmooth3874@reddit

Bad take, darpa put out stealth plane requests in 1974, before the Germans even considered stealth planes, and the f117 prototype flew in 1977, before the German design was even a twinkle in their engineers eye.

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delete013@reddit

What would it take them to write the number one less? Germans started designing a plane in 1975, while the tech for it must have predated the project. Meanwhile in the US the whole exploration of the new stealth concepts started in the same year.. sorry a year earlier. Can't be too obvious eh? So the US gets the tech in 1975 and rushes the design to claim the "patent". Looks almost exactly and when some German traitor tells them that Germans secretly build the plane, the audience at the clandestine Messerschmitt factory is enforced and the US quickly pull the strigns to shut down the project. Nothing suspicious eh? Like the bs story about semicondictor and germanium.

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ConclusionSmooth3874@reddit

I don't think you really know what you're talking about. The US didn't know about the plane until after the nighthawk entered service, in fact, Germany kept it a secret from all of its allies. You're conspiracy might be plausible if not for the a12/sr71 being the first planes designed for some low observability. The nighthawk also looks literally nothing like the lampyridae, having a much more faceted design and all moving tail/swept wing combo instead of a delta wing.

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Apace33@reddit

Looks like a low poly 3D model from an late 90s videogame.

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neliz@reddit

you mean 80s? Elite came out in 1984.

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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

This honestly looks like a paper mache mock up or a low poly video game model.

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devolute@reddit

Yeah. Just some gouraud shading there. They managed to texture the rest of the scene.

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neliz@reddit

I'll have you know that gouraud-casting is the lastest technology in film where a user can quickly scan an environment in simple gouraud elements (instead of rays of light) which gives an extremely lifelike environment without the downsides of reflections and light causing artifacts.