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English: The Convair Kingfish's greatest strength, however, was its RCS. The plane's relatively small size with engines buried inside the fuselage was a significant contributor to its stealth technology, and the Kingfish also retained pyro-ceram material along the wing leading edges and engine nozzles to absorb radar waves. I
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