The Weekly Debrief: Does The U.S. Military Need To Bring Back Seaplanes?

A PBY-5 Catalina performs a depth charge test in 1943.
Credit: U.S. Navy
The specter of war with China across the vast Pacific Ocean has provoked the U.S. military to re-imagine the command-and-control mission, spend billions on ever longer-range and faster missiles, and now has caused U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to embrace the possibility of a seaplane...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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