page_title: NBMR-3
section_title: Aircraft designs submitted
hierarchical_section_title: NBMR-3 / NBMR-3b / Aircraft designs submitted
context_page_description: NBMR-3 or NATO Basic Military Requirement 3 was a document produced by a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation committee in the early 1960s detailing the specification of future combat aircraft designs. The requirement was for aircraft in two performance groups, supersonic fighter aircraft and subsonic fighter-bomber aircraft. Both requirements specifically stated the need for V/STOL performance as the contemporary fear was that airfields could be overrun or disabled through Eastern Bloc hostile actions and that dispersed operating bases would be needed. Germany was planning replacements for the Fiat G.91 and Lockheed F-104G Starfighter using the new aircraft types.
  Aircraft manufacturing companies of European countries were invited to submit designs, from a short-list of 10 supersonic fighter designs two were chosen as the joint winners, the Hawker Siddeley P.1154 and Dassault Mirage IIIV. Disagreement over the balance between best performance aircraft and one which would benefit the aircraft industry more meant that neither type entered service.
context_section_description: France
  Breguet 122
  Nord N.4400
  Germany
  EWR VJ 101
  Focke-Wulf FW.1262
  Italy
  Fiat G95/4
  United Kingdom
  Armstrong Whitworth AW.406
  English Electric P.39
  Short PD.45
  Short PD.49
  Short PD.56
  USA
  Lockheed CL-704
  Of these aircraft types only prototypes of the VJ 101 and VAK 191B were built and flown, they did not enter service. Examples of both types are on display in German aviation museums.
caption: VFW VAK 191B on display at the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim
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