Seaplane Fighters No Runways to be Destroyed dynmicpara

Seaplane fighters that can take-off and land from the water that covers over 70% of the earth's surface cannot be denied flight by cratering a runway--an excellent point brought out by this video of a newsreel from the can-do WW2 generation. However, with the Axis threat gone, the comfortable aircraft carrier racketeers began to take-over world navies and cancelled seaplane fighters, bombers and transports which pose a direct threat to their "Love Boat" clubs where the only time they have to get wet is if the foreign port-of-call girl at the bar throws a beer at them.

What's lost in all this girl-in-every-port hedonistic lifestyle paid by American tax dollars is NAVAL WARFARE EXCELLENCE; that demands that aircraft air cover be DISPERSED onto many ships (Aegis destroyers, Ticonderoga cruisers, Iowa battleships) catapult-launching seaplane fighters that can be recovered from the water--not all the flying "eggs" in one huge target supercarrier "basket".

http://www.geocities.com/usnavyindanger/seaplanefighters.htm

The U.S. Navy had at one time the world's BEST institutional seaplane operations knowledge and equipment because it had a WAR TO WIN--German u-boats FDR ordered them to defeat and Japanese cargo ships to sink, downed airmen and sunkship sailors to rescue, commandos to insert/extract, to include how to land small seaplanes in rough seas. Bet you didn't know that, did you? The aircraft carrier racketeers don't want you to know this; they want you to think the only way to get aircraft at sea is by their bloated missile-magnet supercarriers packed with 5, 000 ready-made "volunteer" victims.

Recently, an Iranian unmanned plane flew over an American supercarrier and we didn't even have a single plane in the sky to stop it because the Top Gun egomaniacs only want to fly sexy F-18 lawn darts and these cannot be flown continuously overhead. The result is an American surface Navy without ANY air cover to prevent enemy precision guided munition targeting, asking to be sunk which is what the Leo Strauss-style Marxist Neo-Cons want--another "Pearl Harbor" to con Americans into war with more "ragheads" so they can take more oil that doesn't belong to them. There was at least one marine who wasn't a self-worshipping idiot, Major General Smedley Butler who said "war is a racket". He is so right.

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[stryker65]

Some issues i might have with this design 1) Up to what sea conditions can it be used ie. take off and land. 2) How much ordnance can one cram into a plane like this? 3) Visibility, won't the pilots rear view be obstructed by those intakes? 4) Won't the plane's hydrodynamics affect the plane's aerodynamic and stealth profile. 5) Logistics. Won't the ship carrying this be more have to be bigger to accommodate the plane's ordnance and fuel thereby becoming more vulnerable?

[dynmicpara]

Sea State 3 and above for water landings using the "C" technique. Go to the seaplanefighters web page offered in the video description

[dynmicpara]

Our surface ships already carry fuel and armaments for slow, short-ranged helicopters compromising their protection...its moot point...better to have a fixed-wing seaplane fighter that can actually defeat air/sea/land threats before they get close

[dynmicpara]

Stealth and pilot visibility are DESIGN features up to the creativity of the people making the seaplane fighter to include; the unimaginative need not try

[dynmicpara]

A fixed-wing sea airplane is more efficient than a helicopter and potentially can carry far more fuel and ordnance

[hwoods01]

Dramatic footage at the end with the plane coming apart... Some producer mixes in some X-Mas like music?? WTH?

[dynmicpara]

He might have been trying to mock the seaplane fighter concept which is still important, valid and needed TODAY. Its through testing that feasible ideas are perfected.

[SDK2584]

Just letting my imagination run wild here...The Soviets used rocket boosters to launch fighters from trucks (without runways) during the cold-war. Using similar methods it may be possible to launch the seadart from a rail of some sort, right off the deck and then retrieve it from the water with a crane or something... like they did with early 20th century seaplanes. Just fire it like a missile when the threat appears, I'm sure the pilots won't mind, they might actually like it!

[flamesholder]

4) stealth? in the 50's??

I think that all in all this plane is very interesting and worth attention.

[WTR1982]

"Claiming to be the first jet-fighter seaplane". Silly yanks, we know the SR.A/1 was first, now.

[BlacktailFA]

If you put an FCS into a Seadart that could handle the AIM-120 AMRAAM and AGM-84 Harpoon, you've really got something. GPS-guided bombs and JASSM cruise missiles would also be handy, as the FCS itself isn't a factor in their use.

I could see that older SaRoe design dishing out Sidewinders and Hellfires, too.

[BlacktailFA]

The "Ski-Boat" you refer to is better known as a Hydrofoil.

The US Navy developed a Hydrofoil Missile Boat, known as the Pegasus-class, back in the late '60's. It was nothing more than a pile of over-expensive mental gadgetry, built for $PORK$, and over 30 years to build a measly 6 --- all were disposed of by 1995.