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Air Transportation: Jet Seaplanes For Russia
June 20, 2013: The Russian Defense Ministry has bought six Be-200 jet powered amphibian aircraft, for about $40 million each. The Be-200 was developed in the 1990s, using a combination of Russian and Western technology. It first flew in 1998, and over a dozen are on order configured as fire-fighting aircraft. This was the main reason it was designed in the first place. Five of these are already in service. This model can carry twelve tons of water (which it could scoop from a river in 12 seconds). The 43 ton aircraft can carry seven tons of cargo or 72 passengers. The aircraft was offered in an anti-submarine configuration but there were no takers. Built to fly low and slow (it cruises at 500 kilometers an hour), the Be-200 was ideal for anti-submarine warfare. It is unclear what the Russian military intends to do with it. Because most of Russia lacks roads and airfields, but has plenty of rivers and lakes, the Be-200 would greatly increase rapid access to many of these areas, especially those beyond the range of helicopters.
Current endurance is about four hours per sortie. This can be increased by using some of the cargo capacity for additional fuel, to get endurance up to eight hours or more. An amphibious aircraft is more expensive to build and maintain, but the Be-200 can be stationed anywhere along the coast (or up a river). During World War II amphibious maritime reconnaissance aircraft often took advantage of this.
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A40 Patrol Seaplane for U.S. Navy MMA
1. Jet Seaplane patrol bomber urgently required
to meet Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft
Requirements for the 21st Century
2004
By the 1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne) dynmicpara@aol.com
2. Earth is still a very Large Place: 100% covered by air and 75%
by water, working around this by land based runway-to-land
based runway aircraft results in incomplete coverage;
satellites and UAVs cannot perform mission of on-scene
investigation, inspection and attack
Sub-national terror groups exploit gaps in
coverage to smuggle drugs, and
potentially WMDs
Nation-State militaries exploit gaps to set conditions
(sea mines, commandos, paratroopers inserted etc.) for
bolt-out-of-the-blue attacks that become fait accompli
3. Land-Based MMA aircraft cannot cover the distances
required and cannot land on water to thwart enemy actions,
waters may be mined and saturated with enemy fighters and
ASMs for aircraft carriers to enter; Red China uses seaplanes
and WIG craft to surge troops
ashore
?
4. U.S. Navy has the world’s most successful Seaplane patrol
bomber tradition using the brilliant design PBY Catalina
amphibian: 25% of all ships sunk in WWII were by patrol
bombers; thousands of downed airmen, stranded sailors
from sunk ships saved: in a major nation-state war these
things are needed AGAIN
5. VP-71 VP-24
VP-34
VP-12
Type B
VP-23
VP-12
VP-33 VP-XX VP-44
6. U.S. Navy Seaplane Patrol Bombers were able to operate
anywhere: on land or sea or air
Seaplane Patrol Bombers can
land on runways using their
wheeled landing gear
U.S. Navy bought 4,000 PBY Seaplane Patrol Bombers, the
largest aircraft purchase its ever made: their contributions
to victory cannot be over-estimated
7. U.S. Navy Seaplane Patrol Bombers could operate
covertly at sea using a seaplane tender ship to refuel,
rearm and repair
8. U.S. Navy Seaplane Patrol Bombers as amphibians
U.S. Navy Seaplane
Patrol Bombers can swim
selves to shores and any
beach becomes a
resupply and/or troop
pick-up point
Air/Ground interface is
possible by the wheeled
landing gear which can
open in the water after
landing using the boat
hull shape
9. Seaplane Patrol Bombers
Patrol & Attack have extended range via
multiple refuel options plus
large onboard fuel capacity
to search and find the enemy
on or below the sea and on
land…PBYs found the
Japanese fleet to win the
battle of Midway
Seaplane Patrol Bombers carry large
bomb, torpedo, depth charge loads
to sink capital ships. Multiple machine
guns to strafe and suppress smaller
targets, the German Battleship
Bismark was found by a PBY
10. Sea Control
Heavily armed Seaplane Patrol
Bombers have lots of internal
space to carry rubber boats
for boarding parties to check out
suspicious small vessels like
sampans in WWII, Korea and
Vietnam (PBM-5 Marlins), both
brown water and blue water maritime
interdiction….littoral sea control
requires seaplanes…
Due to early seaplane technology
PBYs had only 150 mph speeds
(still faster than today’s helicopters),
so they performed their missions
under the dark of night, painting
their PBYs into “Black Cats” to be
invisible before we had AC-130
gunships, F-117 and B-2 stealth
bombers….
11. Search & Rescue
Our men in the water cannot
wait for rescue; most will
die of exposure in just
a few hours especially in the
Atlantic: Seaplanes must
immediately rescue them after
being spotted by crewmen
Heavily armed Seaplanes can suppress
enemy fires to effect pick-up
12. Special Operations
Seaplane Patrol Bombers
quickly and covertly insert
and extract small recon
and raiding forces flying
under enemy radar using
the curvature of the earth
Seaplanes can land deep
into inland waterways to
insert SEALs; if aircraft PBYs extracted 200 Australian Raiders from
the Sepik river in WWII
have to pop-up to jump
altitude enemy could detect
them. If rubber boat
malfunctions we need way to
land and recover SEALs
13. Resupply
Seaplane Patrol Bombers
shuttled supplies to coastal
watchers all over the Pacific.
What would happen if our
Navy’s C-2 Greyhound COD
aircraft were to be shot down?
Or if sea supply ships were sunk
or unavailable? Seaplanes would
be able to land alongside our carriers
and bring aboard vital supplies.
14. Anti-Submarine Warfare
Seaplane Patrol Bombers
sank 50% of the German
U-Boats destroyed in the Allied merchant ships
Atlantic, saving England and
--gross tons sunk...................................................23,351,000
with it the war. After the war, --numbers sunk.......................................................2,775
--sunk in convoy...................................................28%
these lessons were not --sunk by U-boats...................................................52.4%
lost on the Japanese who lost
German submarines*:
the war in great measure by our
--committed to action............................................1,175
seaplane patrol bombers and --lost to enemy action...............................................781
submarines starving out their --sunk by U.S. forces.............................................191
--sunk by surface escorts.........................................245
forward deployed troops of --sunk by land-based aircraft alone......................225
--sunk by hunter-killer groups...................................202
ship-delivered supplies. Their
Shin Meiwa 4-engine turboprop *includes shaved-kill crediting
ASW and SAR seaplanes are Source: “Between Two Stools: Very Long-Range Aircraft in Sea
Control” by Dr. Roger A. Beaumont, Air Chronicles Sep-Oct 1981
revolutionary with a jet engine www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/sep-
blowing hot gas over their wings oct/beaumont.htm
for BLC extra lift: they take-off and
land at just 55 mph!
15. The U.S. Perfects the Seaplane Patrol Bomber
as a 600 mph jet: P-6M SeaMaster in 1960
16. Not only can jet P-6Ms do all the prior
patrol, attack, search, rescue, special
transport, ASW, sea control missions
they now have high jet subsonic
speeds to:
* Bomb inland targets with nuclear or
conventional weapons
* Lay sea mines in enemy waters
* Destroy enemy ships in daylight
17. What does the
U.S. Navy do?
It cancels the P-6M Seamaster!
It throws away 60 years of seaplane technology just as it was fully
maturing! How many souls have died because we couldn’t rescue them?
How many in Vietnam? Fortunately, we haven’t had a massive nation-
state global world war on the scale of WWII with thousands of men all
over the oceans in harm’s way and often in peril…in the future we will
18. VP-71 VP-24
VP-34
VP-12
Type B
VP-23
VP-12
VP-33 VP-XX VP-44
19. What does the Soviet/Russian Navy do?
They have an entire sub-branch of their armed forces dedicated to “Long
Range Aviation” to sink the U.S. Navy with seaplanes and patrol plane
bombers, all very fast and very LETHAL with anti-ship and cruise
missiles. With the fall of the Soviet Union and both of us facing a common
Islamofascist threat why don’t we use their good ideas?
Tu-160 Blackjack
Tu-22 Backfire
Be-12 Mail
Tu-95
20. The Past is Prologue: What must the cash-strapped
U.S. Navy do?
Use the retirement of our P-3 converted civilian airliner
fleet to gain the jet patrol seaplane bomber capabilities
we need through the MMA program; reinvigorate seaplane
technology to help decongest the nation’s airports--its
better to go from strong military to civilian variants than
vice-a-versa, the sleek Russian A-40 jet seaplane is
perfect to perform the MMA mission
=
Russian A-40
American P-6M
21. Russian A-40 jet seaplane
is:
FAST: 472 mph
REACH: 3,417 miles
DEADLY: 14,329 pounds
of bombs, torpedoes,
rockets, missiles, mines,
gunpods, SEAL teams
FLEXIBLE: operates from
land, sea; can be air-
refueled or from a single
covert ship at sea
22. New U.S. technologies
to add to
A-40 MMA
jet seaplane’s global
reach
FLIR and image intensifier
360 degree surveillance,
laser target designators
Precision Strike Munitions reach out to hit enemies hiding
by C3D2 in difficult terrain and intermingled with civilians
23. Air-to-Air refueling
Who says the A-40 MMA has to land? Hook-up with a
tanker and have a second on-board “Gold” flight crew take
over for the “Blue” team. Twice the patrol range per A-40
24. Special Operations
Military Free Fall (MFF) parachuting in SEALs or Army
Green Berets as A-40 MMA appears to be a civilian airliner.
A-40 MMA flies under radar under earth’s curvature and
inserts/extracts SEAL boat teams or combat swimmers
25. Enhanced Rescues
Under most circumstances the A-40’s brilliant Beriev design would enable it to
land on the water to immediately get survivors out of the water. But..if for some
reason the A-40 MMA cannot land, then a Fulton Surface-To-Air II “Skyhook” kit
could be dropped with perhaps a combat rescue swimmer to help employ its
tethered balloon for the A-40 MMA to fly overhead and snatch and reel-in up to
6 people at a time.
Navy did SkyHook I
first, then USAF used
it on MC-130 Combat
Talon Is, SkyHook II
not fielded yet
26. Mini-Submarine Rescue/Covert Operations
X
DSRV can fly in a C-5
R3Y Tradewind seaplane but still needs a ship
transport “Flying LST”:
another seaplane the Navy
gave up on
A 4-engined sea transport MMA variant with a nose that
opens could direct deliver mini-subs to rescue downed fleet
submarines like the Kursk before men asphyxiate; SEAL
mini-subs can do special operations after MMA insertion
27. Air-Mech 3D Amphibious Assaults
With some more fuselage modifications and a boat hull shape to sit high enough in the
water, the A-40 MMA could land in water and open its nose for M113A4 Amphigavins to
splash into the water or onto the beach Why have thousands of marines or spec ops
troops sitting for 6 months at a time in vulnerable surface amphibious ships if we can fly
them to the scene via a 4-engined A40 MMA seaplane derivative transport? Thousands of
troops were killed in WWII when their transport ships were sunk by Japanese/German
submarines and aircraft attacks. A fact rarely advertised by military historians.
+
ARIS SPA of Italy makes a waterjet kit that converts the
world’s greatest light tracked armored fighting
vehicle--the 10.5 ton M113 Gavin from a lake/river
swimmer to anocean-going amphibian that is still air-
transportable by helicopters and fixed-wing transports
28. Supersonic bothers civilians? Does it the fish?
Let’s face it, civil-military aviation is going backwards in
2004. We are throwing in electronic gadgets and pinching
pennies with anemic physical flight designs as we try to
physically not be there with UAVs. Do men want to fly in the
21st century of pretend behind a computer screen? The
Concorde SST couldn’t fly over land so we retired it. Fine,
why not make a supersonic seaplane like Beriev proposes?
The sky is the limit only
if you reach for the sky----
in-person---not from a desk.
Understanding what works in
water and sky in God’s
creation is the courageous
and right thing to do. On
earth, Jesus Christ was a
carpenter.