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The Navy’s Secret Diving and Flying Spy Plane

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Swimming Planes - The Navy’s Secret Diving and Flying Spy Plane
The Navy’s Secret Diving and Flying Spy Plane
 Published: Feb 25, 06
Comments: 2 Views: 4,976

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.

The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy’s gigantic Cold War—era Ohio-class submarines.

These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes to provide another unmanned option for spying on or destroying targets near the coast.

References:  cnn

Filed In:  inventions,  science,  tech,  unique








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rocketranger on Jan 15, 07  0 Trends   2,582 Comments
Lets Test this in Iraq/Iran area from Persian Gulf area or Indian Ocean, Red Sea. & over US Mex Border.
rocketranger on Jan 15, 07  0 Trends   2,582 Comments 0
torazx on Feb 8, 07  0 Trends   51 Comments
The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane
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