The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane [meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer]

Popular Science ^ | February 2006 | By Bill Sweetman

[joesnuffy]

It ain't quite that simple...

Got my X box/Playstation nephew into flying RC aircraft..(and repairing them)

To help him get into UAV MOS

He will happy to tell you how simple the transition is...

It takes some real skill to fly the heavier more powerful aircraft...and lots and lots of practice...and knowledge.

[Dog]

Wasn't one of these type planes on the Japanese drawing board in WWII?

[Hank Rearden]

Wasn't one of these type planes on the Japanese drawing board in WWII?

I believe there were actually a few kamikaze aircraft launched from Japanese subs toward the end of the war - can't remember how successfully.

They had a sort of watertight shed on the foredeck of the sub; after surfacing they'd roll out the plane and launch it from deck rails - I think it had sort of a little cart under the plane that would drop off after launch.

All from memory (History Channel show?), so may be utterly wrong. I think it was one of those "Secret Aircraft of WWII" type shows.

[Dog]

All from memory (History Channel show?), so may be utterly wrong. I think it was one of those "Secret Aircraft of WWII" type shows.

I saw the same show....they planned on using it to attack the US west coast....I think.

[steve86]

At night that thing would appear little different, if at all, than the "UFO" that Art Bell and many others have witnessed.

[D_Idaho]

Are you sure that isn't Hillary's ass up there?

[dljordan]

OK, which way is up on that thing?

[SLB]

Four Ohio's are currently being refitted to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles in revolving silos in place of their Polaris ballistic missiles. They now have twenty-two tubes, each armed with seven Tomahawks for a total of 154 cruise missiles and can also carry 66 SEALS and their equipment.

[SandRat]

That's just plain weird looking!!!!

[ferri]

i do too. and a stealth. we don't ask for much do we?

[roaddog727]

Voyage to the bottom of the sea bump

[martin_fierro]

Looks like a Cubist seagull.

[allen08gop]

I wasn't being sarcastic with you. The thought just popped into my head and the fingers went to work rearranging electrons...

There's more to this than meets the eye.

[Bender2]

Been there, done that... And with a cloaking device, too!

[NicknamedBob]

Thought you'd like to see this, and I didn't see your names.

[Hank Rearden]

I wasn't being sarcastic with you. The thought just popped into my head and the fingers went to work rearranging electrons...

No, I meant *I* was being sarcastic in my original post. Seems like creating a cruise missile (which are already configged for sub tube launch) with a loiter capability and eyes, that doesn't have to return to the mothership, would be a more straightforward approach. But I don't spend all day thinking about this kind of stuff anymore, so I hope I'm missing something.

[allen08gop]

Okay, I am now ready for a group hug :-)

I was just making sure that you knew that I wasn't being sarcastic or critical.

We can now move on knowing peace will be with us forever more {RBG}

[Grampa Dave]

It probably is. Please ping the group.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

[wildcatf4f3]

i was still laughing