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You were given the definition and had it explained why Kinzhal fails it already, yet you are accusing other of playing with definitions. Either are too stupid to understand a simple 3 condition based definition and how not meeting one of the 3 conditions still means failing it, or you are...

Ok, in that case USA had an air launched hypersonic missile in the 60's and no one gives a crap about old tech like that. Invest in some sense before trying to pull the dictionary against people who know the shit you are talking about better than you do. The hype about hypersonic weapons is...

SRBM not ICBM. Also Skybolt was a thing, and didn't need a supersonic fighter to get it to hypersonic speeds, just a B-52. Got cancelled for low accuracy, but that was in the 60's.

Kinzhal is not any more of a hypersonic missile than Pershing-2 or many other decades old ballistic missiles because it can't maneuver at hypersonic speeds. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a43804177/russias-kinzhal-missile-is-not-hypersonic/

F-15's have enough range to fight from the other end of our country. Still, they are being just "considered" now, sticker shock may stop them, considering the cheaping out on further F-16's.

https://interestingengineering.com/military/norway-land-f-35-on-highway And you think Sweden is somehow harder to threaten or pressure? That is, besides the logistical problem, with such small production scales you don't even know if the planes and parts will exist in the numbers needed even...

Not stalled anymore. It has a flying prototype since last year, and half a year ago in-flight radar testing was announced with at least 4 planes available now and 2 more planned to be completed this year. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/03/205_346489.html Seen a lot of strange...

Or make your own stealthy options like Japan and SK do.

In that case Sweden is about the last country you should look for them in. Sweden stopped selling weapons to Saudis (of course on left's request) but USA didn't.

Yeah, if anything killed recon planes, it is drones, which are effectively remote or script controlled recon planes, which helps their mission endurance, cost, and... loss risk tolerance.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66469620 https://theaviationist.com/2023/08/14/privately-owned-mig-23-crashes-during-airshow-in-michigan/

It is a shitload compared to the dedicated military ones...

There are hundreds flying, and newest model is not out of production. Produced CL-415: 1993–2015 / DHC-515: 2022-present

But there is a shitload of foreign operators of other models used around the world though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415#Operators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-215#Operators This seems to be the most popular one, mainly made for firefighting but also has SAR and...

This project shows there is enough. There was just a major break in demand, probably filled with old production, flying boat conversions of lighter designs, helicopters, and Chinese production.

It's also going to be capable of landing on land like some of the old Catalina variants. Also some smaller transports like this can have floats, even though smaller, as i mentioned they are usually turboprops anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin_Otter For Coasties...

Most of larger civilian commercial planes for that kind of stuff are also turboprops for the same performance purposes. Let's be honest, if you shell out for a plane like this and can afford the sheer amount of fuel to fill it, you aren't desperately needing it to be cheap and simple. It's not...

The figures given for Catalina 2 definitely point it towards being a much better transport than the original one.

US air force spec ops wanted a flying boat so much they investigated modifying C-130 to be amphibious and trained with Japanese flying boats. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44424/u-s-air-force-trains-with-japans-us-2-flying-boat-as-it-looks-forward-to-its-own-amphibious-plane For...

Technically they can. Practically, tilt rotors have less range, plus they are much less fuel efficient and less optimized for cruising, nevermind landing on water, which has its own uses in things like rescues. I've seen articles since years suggesting flying boats could be useful to USA for...