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ground attack aircraft designed in 1938 by Frederik Kassel, who created the aircraft after a request from the '' Technisches Amt'' (Technical Department) of the RLM ''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' - (German aviation ministry). The two-engine aircraft was a strut-braced high-wing monoplane with two tail-booms and a narrow fuselage pod carried by struts under the centre-section, and was designed to operate in areas featuring rough

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, and boasted two rigidly mounted forward-facing

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s. The former development director

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described the Fi 168 as a flying "tank destroyer". The project was discontinued at the direction of the RLM in September 1939.

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