Nov 202009
<> Bill Sweetman’s Ares Blog at Aviation Week shows an illustration of a seaplane taken from a 2006 paper written by two Lockheed guys and one Boeing guy. The seaplane design is unusual… but not terribly new. Wander over to the Ares blog and take a look… then compare it to the Lockheed Sea Sitter concept from the 1970’s. This monster of a plane (which I wrote about for issue V5N3 of the initial run of Aerospace Projects Review) was designed as a Sea Control plane… essentially a flying warship. Armed with two 20mm CIWS Gatling guns, a single 105 mm howitzer sticking out the port side, a Kamen SeaSprite anti-sub helicopter and a dozen Lance battlefield missiles in vertical silos.
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Is there any way we could get you to convert the older APRs into electronic format?
Why would it carry Lance missiles if its mission was sea control? Wouldn’t Harppons and Tomahawks be more useful?
> Why would it carry Lance missiles…
Lance missiles would get there quicker than subsonic cruise missiles, with less chance of interception. Other than that… dunno. For most applications, cruise missiles would seem to make more sense.
> Is there any way we could get you to convert the older APRs into electronic format?
That’s what I’m doing with the new APRs, albeit kinda slowly.