SECRET Military Seaplane Fighter: SeaWolf Amphibian (SWA)

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Republic aircraft whose SeaBee amphibian you saw 007 fly very low under Chinese radar in "The Man with the Golden Gun" 007 movie in 1975 merged with Grumman's legendary amphibious seaplane makers to create the definitive Lake LA-4 Renegade seaplane whose pod-mounted engine and prop sits high above both water spray and land dirt and dust. Extremely safe by its smooth bottom with wheels retracted for any belly landings: often no damage is suffered on a grassy field. These and other design lessons born of the combined Grumman/Republic seaplane-amphibian experience lives on in today's military variant--the SeaWolf.

The SeaWolf Amphibian (SWA) is a 200 mph, 1, 000 pound payload, 12-hour flight duration, 1, 000 mile range, sensor, missile, rocket and gun-armed Military Seaplane Fighter that can fly over the land and water--as well as put down on the ocean, swamp, river or lake to hunt enemy submarines by dipping sonar, capture belligerent boats--to include boarding--or rescue men in peril in the sea.

The military potential of future SeaWolf variants is remarkable because its brilliant design solves several problems concurrently--a 2nd safety and payload-speed-increasing, engine could be fitted behind the current pod mounted engine to spin in the opposite direction countering torque without the propeller needing gearing to hand in the other direction and thrust is in-line so if an engine conks out, the remaining engine doesn't cause the plane to spin as befalls twins whose 2 engines are on their wings.

SeaWolves @ Sea

Cranes can hoist the SeaWolf onto the water or back aboard even small ships like the SPECTRE hydrofoil-disguised-yacht "Disco Volante" Commander Fleming depicts in "Thunderball"--and potentially submarines if its wings are detached or a folding wing variant were made to fit a waterproof dry shelter aft of the main sail akin to how mini-subs are currently deployed by U.S. Navy SEALs. SeaWolf's Short-Take-Off and Landing (STOL) capabilities on both water and land make it more than just a military grasshopper--its a lethal frog. Small teams of Navy SEAL or Army Ranger/Green Beret/Delta Force commandos could covertly insert-extract by SeaWolves flying under enemy radar, landing offshore for them to fin-swim or rubber boat or kayak ashore or deep inland using its landing gear. As a fixed-wing, small seaplane-amphibian, the SeaWolf flies faster, longer and at only a tiny fraction of the cost--and nearly no maintenance--compared to current overly-complex helicopters that cannot land on water--even in an emergency as the tragic "Perfect Storm" incident in 1991 where a military, fuel-hungry, New York, 106th Rescue Wing of the U.S. Air National Guard, HH-60G Pave Hawk could-not air-refuel and had to ditch into rough seas.

Even Coast Guard MH-60 JayHawks cannot land on the water due to their non-amphibian design--the single-engined helicopter they replaced--the HH-52 Pelican that can put down in the water as seen in the 1965 James Bond movie, "Thunderball" actually shows we've regressed in capabilities in order to gain a 2nd engine. Why a twin-engined, amphibian rescue helicopter couldn't have been purchased at the time comes from the sad situation of them no longer in production. CH-47 Chinooks can put down safely into calm waters and is used to launch & recover outboard-motor-driven Zodiac F470 rubber boats operated by U.S. Army Rangers, Green Berets and Navy SEALs. Tragically, both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard today do not have a fixed-wing, seaplane that can land on the ocean and immediately attack or rescue what's spotted below by direct coping--but must instead pass-the-problem bureaucratically to another platform far-away resulting in bad guys getting away and good people dying. At one time, the U.S. Navy was the world's leaders in both small, ship-operated seaplanes as well as larger seaplanes usually operated from shore bases though they, too could operate and be refueled at sea by submarines and seaplane tender surface ships. Today's amphibious ships with flooding well-decks would be ideal to operate small SeaWolf seaplane fighters that can motor from and back in like ducklings after a take-off from the top, dry flight deck. SeaWolf seaplane fighters operating from USN amphibious ships or a container ship with a kit composed of special containers offering a flight deck can perform Sea Control missions to include hunting very quiet, enemy AIP diesel-electric submarines by virtue of their far longer air search reach than ASW helicopters and can land on the water to actively ping sonar instead of tossing expensive sonobuoys that aircraft that can't water land must do-at great tax payer expense, questionable effectiveness.

Folding, detached-wing SeaWolves are ground mobile, towed by tactical vehicles to operate like UCAVs--but without the 50% loss rate!