So now that the USA Navy is deploying underwater F/A-18 Super Hornet Battle Combat Ace Knight Super-D/X Series Mega Jets, how should we expect the situation in the Red Sea / Yemen conflict to develop? I understand that this is a situational deployment and usually planes like air, but obviously this is strategic. With the enemy deploying tactics like visiting their girlfriends at civilian apartments where they live, can we expect a water-to-civilian-land combat solution on the horizon?

edit* I am specifically requesting a War Thunder leak thanks

  • Libra00@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    To the best of my knowledge the navy has never flown a plane underwater. If I’m wrong about that then please do enlighten me, I’d love to read that shit.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Congress dislikes fun things.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Submersible_Seaplane

      The Convair Submersible Seaplane (or “Subplane”) was a United States Navy project to produce a seaplane which could travel underwater as well as fly.

      Convair made detailed designs and built scale models which were tested, and averred that the craft would work, but the project did not get beyond that stage and was cancelled by Congress in 1965[2] or 1966.[1][3]

      1000009181

      • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        The Navy cooked up all sorts of whack-a-doodle ideas that didn’t have a chance in hell of being feasible, much less useful, but that’s definitely the silliest I’ve seen in a while.

        • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          They weren’t the only ones back then by a long shot.

          Army: Chrysler TV-8 Nuclear-Powered Tank

          Air Force: The McDonnell XF-85 “Goblin”

          Marines: The Marine Corps’ Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC)

          There are weirder ones but I think these are definitely up there.