So now that the USA Navy is deploying underwater F/A-18 Super Hornet Battle Combat Ace Knight Super-D/X Series Mega Jets, how should we expect the situation in the Red Sea / Yemen conflict to develop? I understand that this is a situational deployment and usually planes like air, but obviously this is strategic. With the enemy deploying tactics like visiting their girlfriends at civilian apartments where they live, can we expect a water-to-civilian-land combat solution on the horizon?

edit* I am specifically requesting a War Thunder leak thanks

  • Libra00English
    29•8 days ago

    Plane not fly in water, plane fly in air.

      • Libra00
        2•8 days ago

        To the best of my knowledge the navy has never flown a plane underwater. If I’m wrong about that then please do enlighten me, I’d love to read that shit.

        • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          11•8 days ago

          Congress dislikes fun things.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Submersible_Seaplane

          The Convair Submersible Seaplane (or “Subplane”) was a United States Navy project to produce a seaplane which could travel underwater as well as fly.

          Convair made detailed designs and built scale models which were tested, and averred that the craft would work, but the project did not get beyond that stage and was cancelled by Congress in 1965[2] or 1966.[1][3]

          1000009181

          • Libra00English
            2•7 days ago

            The Navy cooked up all sorts of whack-a-doodle ideas that didn’t have a chance in hell of being feasible, much less useful, but that’s definitely the silliest I’ve seen in a while.

            • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱
              2•7 days ago

              They weren’t the only ones back then by a long shot.

              Army: Chrysler TV-8 Nuclear-Powered Tank

              Air Force: The McDonnell XF-85 “Goblin”

              Marines: The Marine Corps’ Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC)

              There are weirder ones but I think these are definitely up there.

              • Libra00English
                2•7 days ago

                Oh no doubt, everybody had some kooky ideas.

    • @HKPiax@lemmy.world
      6•8 days ago

      WRONG

      Air is a liquid, water is liquid, so you can fly a plane in the water are you stupid?

      • @datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2•8 days ago

        Air behaves like a liquid… air is a gas.

        Maybe this was a joke, but I’m unfortunately now required to ask whether you’re stupid.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL
          1•7 days ago

          Air behaves like a fluid. “Fluid” doesn’t necessarily mean “liquid”

          • @Saleh@feddit.org
            1•7 days ago

            And the comment replied to specifically claimed air to be liquid, which it is not at typical temperatures and pressures.

      • Libra00English
        1•7 days ago

        You’re right, relative density and the chemical composition necessary to oxidize fuel combustion definitely are irrelevant, thanks for reminding me!