War & Peace: WIG Seaplanes + Tanks = Battle-Winning Game-Changers: WIG Seaplanes + High Speed Trains: USA-to-U.K. in COMFORT in a Day!
The U.S. Army under General MacArthur in the Philippines was abandoned by their Army Air Corps and the Navy such that they could only hold off the Japanese invaders for 1/2 a year before surrendering. The U.S. Army must HAVE ITS OWN GEOSTRATEGIC MOBILITY THAT CANNOT BE DENIED BY ENEMY ANTI-ACCESS/AREA DENIAL weaponry.
If USA had a High Speed Train system, military-commercial dual-use, WIG seaplanes could supplies & reinforcement units to wherever the Army is fighting--first to the U.K. in under a day:
www.combatreform.org/jamesbondfliesbytrain.htm
Moreover, if America got its Stoical life-minimums act together, it would cover our North American continent with High Speed Train (HST) service like China has amazingly done, made economically possible by 2 years of National Service--which would include a High Speed Train Corps option that when these WIG seaplanes are not transporting ISO shipping containers (in war BATTLEBOXes www.combatreform.org/battleboxes.htm) they could load a HST and fly the people--and their eCars and eBikes--to the U.K. in under 8 hours in safe comfort!
In wartime, these HSTs and WIGs could hop from NE USA to Greenland to Iceland then to U.K. (1.5k miles) along ASW coverage evading enemy submarines and seamines...this trans-atlantic land bridge to Europe would make America into a Mackinder-like LAND POWER and not just a weak Mahan, 300-cruiser TIN CAN maritime dependent potential blockade-into-surrender victim.
WIG warpig pics courtesy of RougeTech and Solomon SNAFU!
www.snafu-solomon.com/2017/03/wing-in-ground-effect-amphibious.html
Hidden from enemy C4ISR surveillance inside each 20 or 40 foot long BATTLEBOX, could be a pair of (2) Light Recon Vehicle (LRV) Wiesel 2 scout tanks or a Light Infantry Brigade Combat Team (L-IBCT) M113A4+ Super Gavin MTVL or a medium-weight Cavalry Armored Regiment (MCAR) with upgraded Bradley or Lynx or Puma or CV90 tracked armored tanks--all cross-country mobile (XCM) to avoid enemy Precision Directed Munitions (PDMs) like land mines, RPGs and ATGMs, massed tube and rocket artillery Terrain Saturation Fires (TFS) expected along roads-trails wheeled vehicles are restricted to. The Langley Research Center's Heavy Lift WIG Seaplane carries 64 x 20 foot long or 32 x 40 foot long BATTLEBOXes. Soldiers and Scouts would be in their tanks to roll-off combat-ready for action. If the U.S. Army Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) Force had a squadron of 12 x HL-WIGSs on each coast--west and east--to rapidly respond to GeoStrategic threats, the following LIBCT and MCAR deployments of 300 tanks would be possible to NATO's U.K. or French coast to beach direct-deliver to say stop a CRIMEslam illegal immigrant invasion:
HL-WIGSs LIBCT U.K./France Direct 2, 000 Miles GIUK 3, 000 Miles
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12 64 x Super Gavins per sortie; entire LIBCT in 1/2 lift 6 hours 9 hours
+ 128 x Wiesel 2s in other 1/2 of lift
MCAR
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12 32 x Pumas per sortie; entire MCAR in 1 lift 6 hours 9 hours
James Bond travel in style! With Military GeoStrategic War-Winning Applications!
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July 1, 2017 | Aerospace
Heavy Lift Wing in Ground (WIG) Cargo Flying Boat
The main commercial application is transoceanic cargo transport.
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
There are two commonly used options to transport large-volume and heavy cargo across the ocean: container ships and airline transport aircraft. Container ships take about 3 to 4 weeks to deliver goods, and airline transport aircraft take about 2 days. This innovation is a flying boat aircraft designed for heavy lift cargo utilizing wing in ground (WIG) effect. The wing in ground effect has many names, but it refers to the phenomenon where an aircraft flying close to the ground has increased lift and decreased induced drag. The induced drag of the aircraft is half of the induced drag compared to flying at altitude when the aircraft operates within 10% of its wingspan to the surface. The lift is double compared to flying at altitude when the aircraft is operating within 10% of its chord length to the surface.
JBIR.
