The US Air Force's special operators are hustling to turn their biggest planes into flying boats
Christopher Woody
Sep 16, 2021, 5:35 PM
AFSOC MC-130J Commando II float amphibious plane rendering
A rendering of an amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II. US Air Force Special Operations Command
The prospect of a war in the Pacific has the US military thinking about how to spread out and conduct amphibious operations.
Those challenges have renewed the US military's interest in an old concept: amphibious aircraft.
US Air Force Special Operations Command now plans to rapidly develop an amphibious prototype of its workhorse plane, the MC-130J.
https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-special-operations-command-turning-mc130j-into-flying-boats-2021-9
