The Navy’s plan to build flying submarines for Navy SEALs
Alex Hollings | November 17, 2021
America’s special operations forces use a wide variety of vehicles to conduct their covert operations, but few are as dramatic as the Navy’s recent efforts to field a flying submarine that could ferry operators into and out of the battlespace quickly and stealthily.
To date, there has been no evidence to suggest that such a platform is in current operation, but Navy documents from 2010 clearly show that not only was the branch seriously investigating this concept, they concluded that the idea was entirely feasible with the existing technology of the day.
“The submersible aircraft study combines the speed and range of an airborne platform with the stealth of an underwater vehicle by developing a vessel that can both fly and submerge.”
-Rick Goddard & Jonathan Eastgate, Submersible Aircraft Concept Design Study
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-navys-plan-to-build-flying-submarines-for-navy-seals-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds/
