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* [http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/x-wing.html RSRA X-Wing]. (No, not [[Star Wars|that X-Wing]].) It's a plane! It's a helicopter! It's a plane ''and'' a helicopter!
* See [http://www.amazon.com/My-Tank-Fight-Zack-Parsons/dp/0806527587/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205083504&sr=8-1 My Tank is Fight!] for a look at flying tank ideas, among other Military Mashup Machine concepts from [[Real Life]].
* Several countries [[wikipedia:Winged tank|experimented]] with flying tanks in ''[[World War II]]'', some included in the book above. Naturally, [//tankarchives.blogspot.com/2020/01/from-sky-to-earth.html the first] with such a project was John Walter Christie. But [[Preparing for the Last War|few except Red Army]] both were tempted enough to try and develop a model fitting to mass produce and had resources to seriously go for it.
* Wouldn't be a complete article without mentioning [[wikipedia:Lockheed AC-130|the AC-130]]. With the weapons load including a ''105mm howitzer'' it's is informally classified as a flying artillery platform. I mean just look at that thing.
* The AC-130 is cool, but similar attempt was done on at least two [https://web.archive.org/web/20131206213200/http://www.stormbirds.net/variants262a1aU4.htm ME262], the Me262 A-1a/U4 variant, with 50mm Anti-tank cannon fitted on its nose. Consider WWII have light tanks with smaller cannons.
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