The US Air Force's special operators are hustling to turn their biggest planes into flying boats

Sep 16 2021 by Business Insider

 
A rendering of an amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II.

US Air Force Special Operations Command

The prospect of a war in the Pacific has the US military thinking about how to spread out and conduct amphibious operations. Those challenges have renewed the US military's interest in an old concept: amphibious aircraft. US Air Force Special Operations Command now plans to rapidly develop an amphibious prototype of its workhorse plane, the MC-130J. See more stories on Insider's...
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