The “Liberty Lifter” fits neatly into the operational concepts sculpting how US joint forces intend to compete and win in the Western Pacific.

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American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off and land in rough seas.

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The secretive Pentagon research agency says the Liberty Lifter programme has proven the viability of building an amphibian ...