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In French un merle, from Latin merula (feminine), [3] is a male blackbird, a member of the thrush family (formerly the term was feminine and could designate a male: une merle —a hen blackbird: une merlesse ). A merlette (diminutive form of merle: a little blackbird) in common parlance, since the 19th century, is a female blackbird, but in ...
It is depicted as a stylized bird similar to a swift or a house martin, without feet. The bird’s continuous flight symbolizes the idea of continuous effort and pursuit. In heraldry, the martlet is often associated with the fourth son of a family, and it was used as a mark of cadency.
Unter der Bezeichnung Martlet verwendete auch die britische Fleet Air Arm den Typ auf Flugzeugträgern der Royal Navy. Die Wildcat, die bis 1945 im Einsatz war, gilt als Ursprung der berühmten „Katzen-Familie“ von Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Grumman-Werke), [2] deren Tradition, Flugzeugmodelle nach Katzenarten zu benennen ...
- 2. September 1937
- Jagdflugzeug
Die von der Thales Group im Auftrag des britischen Verteidigungsministeriums entwickelte Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM; ‚leichter Mehrzweckflugkörper‘; lokale Bezeichnung Martlet) ist eine modular aufgebaute Lenkwaffe zur Bekämpfung von See-, Land- und Luftzielen.
- Martlet
- Vereinigtes Königreich
- Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM)
- Thales Group
Martlet or the Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) is a lightweight air-to-surface, air-to-air, surface-to-air, and surface-to-surface missile developed by Thales Air Defence for the United Kingdom. It is named after a mythical bird from English heraldry that never roosts, the Martlet.
- 2021; full operating capability with the Royal Navy projected for 2025
- United Kingdom
The Martlet The martlet is a small bird, usually depicted without feet and (in some cases) without beak. There is some dispute as to what kind of bird it is. In English heraldry, it is a swallow; in French heraldry, it looks very much like a duckling. In German heraldry, it is said to be a lark. It was originally a small blackbird, then became ...
Description. These mythical birds are shown properly in English heraldry with two or three short tufts of feathers in place of legs and feet. Swifts, formerly known as martlets, have such small legs that they were believed to have none at all, which lends credence to the legend of the legless Martlet. French merlette.
