What is your favorite tank/aircraft named after an animal?

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

My favorite is the King Tiger (a tank) and the Me-262 Swallow (first jet fighter to enter service.)
What is your fave?
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[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

@wvbirder

Is this off subject? It is nature, kinda.

[wvbirder]

I think it’s completely fine.

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Cool, thanks.

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

And also, I like the Maus, the largest tank ever built.

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Maus is mouse in German.

[wvbirder]

Welcome!

[oksanaetal]

Sopwith Camel. It was featured in Peanuts, and is the only tank/aircraft that I know a name for. Fortunately it has an animal in its name!

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Awesome choice! Sopwith camel is super cool.

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

It’s archenemy is the German/Prussian Albatorss, also an animal name, lol. https://www.warbirds-eaa.org/the-1917-german-albatros-d-va/

[jasonhernandez74]

The only one that comes to mind is the only one in which I have actually ridden: the CH-53 Sea Stallion:

[forest_beans]

V-22 Osprey!
flies like a plane, takes off like a helicopter, looks like a strange hybrid of both

[isopodguy]

Those are really cool!

[oksanaetal]

Cooooool!

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Super cool choices, y’all!!

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Excellent!

[wvbirder]

This is my favorite too!

[tanker-aviator-naturalist]

Too bad they have tech issues. They crash a lot.

[steven_bach]

My favorite animal named aircraft is the SR-71 Blackbird (also nicknamed “Habu,” a Japanese viper). Fastest air breathing manned aircraft, and a truly impressive feat of engineering.