New channel: Check out: Discord: The year is 1961. USA needs an edge agaist the soviets. They turned to military supplier Convair, who at the time was looking into various applications of nuclear power in aircraft for the US navy. They had already proposelled the very imaginative submersible seaplane submarine hunter, and naturally had the imagination to think outside of the box. the engineers had so far thought up unmanned nuclear VTOL drones, aircraft caffier launched mach 3 strike craft, both projects that desperately need a future video, as well as giant nuclear seaplanes, much like the Lockheed flying nuclear tug that I put up last week that you can watch right here. But the US navy wasn't satisfied. they needed something that had the deterrent capacity of a submarine, but would also be able to reach inland targets far from the ocean - after all, if you have ever see
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