https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/san-carlos-fob/
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With two GR.3’s on the ground and much of the runway damaged, two inbound Sea Harriers did not have enough fuel to return to the carriers. Instead, they each carried out a vertical landing on the two assault ships in San Carlos Water, HMS Fearless and HMS Intrepid.
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This is EXACTLY what the USN must do on an EMERGENCY BASIS with a detachment of F-35B Jump Jets/Pilots/Crews etc.
www.combatreform.org/seaplanefighters.htm
USN Seaplane Jet Fighters + Aircraft Battle Cruisers:
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art33128.htm
http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/HI/HI-26/79-1.jpg
Note the 2-seat, J79 turbojet engined "SeaDart" with 1x ski--not the failed 2x--listening LockMartSky? They knew this, too in the past!
Japanese Seaplane Fighters in WW2
https://laststandonzombieisland.com/2020/01/08/warship-wednesday-jan-8-2020-maru-floatplane-carriers/
Here we see the Kamikawa Maru-class cargo ship, Kimikawa Maru, converted to a Tokusetsu Suijokibokan (special seaplane carrier) of the Imperial Japanese Navy, at Oominato in northern Honshu, in late 1942. As you can tell, this interesting ship and her sisters could carry a serious load of armed, and often very effective, floatplanes.
Constructed in the late 1930s through a joint endeavor of the Japanese shipping firm Ōsaka Mercantile and Kawasaki Kisen in the latter’s Kobe-based shipyard, the five 6,800-ton ships of the class were intended for the Japan-New York route, a trip of some 15,000 nautical miles. This was no sweat as, using a single efficient MAN-designed Kawasaki-made diesel, they had an incredible 35,000nm range at 17 knots.
By 1942, this airwing would grow to as many as 14 much more capable Aichi E13A Type Zero (Jake) armed reconnaissance planes and four Daves– the airwing Kamikawa Maru took to Alaska during the Midway operation. Later types like the Nakajima A6M2-N (Rufe) Type 2 Sui-Sen (‘Rufe’) floatplane version of the Zero fighter soon joined them.
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/a6m2-n-type-2-floatplane-fighter.-sep-oct-1942-seaplane-tender-kamikawa-maru-r-rabaul-front-air-force..jpg
A6M2-N Type 2 floatplane fighter, Sep-Oct 1942, on seaplane tender Kamikawa Maru
At least four Japanese navy pilots chalked up at least three kills while at the controls of floatplanes, most in the A6M-2N: CPO Shigeji Kawai, WO Kiyomi Katsuki, CPO Keizo Yamaza, and CPO Maruyama, although it should be noted that Katuski downed his first aircraft, a Dutch KNIL PBY, while flying an F1M2 Pete. Katsuki, who had 16 kills, spent at least some of his time flying from Kamikawa Maru.
In all, the K-Maru carriers were an interesting concept, a quick and easy way to send a small expeditionary airwing to sea short of converting the ships to more proper escort carriers such as done by the Allies.
A very interesting postwar interrogation of CDR Kintaro Miura, Kamikawa Maru‘s senior air officer from the outbreak of war until December 1942, is in the NHHC archives. [Page 86]
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https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/i/interrogations-japanese-officials-voli.html
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