Task Purpose
@taskandpurpose·2M subscribers·698 videos
America Needs a Seaplane — Why Not Japan’s US-2?
Posted
August 18, 2026
Views
17,977
Likes
2,104
Comments
352
Engagement
13.66%
August 18, 2026
17,977
2,104
352
13.66%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
19:03Now PlayingSC Smart Start: Your Free Transition Assistant
Getting out of the military is hard enough without navigating benefits alone. SC Smart Start, built by the South Carolina Department of Veterans Affairs, is a completely free virtual transition assistant connecting service members, veterans, and their families with trusted resources for housing, education, job training, child care, and more.
See what South Carolina, the best state for veterans, has to offer
--
If you spend any time looking at a map of the Pacific theatre, you'll notice that there is a lot of space, a lot of water, and not a lot of land.
This is a problem when the survival of your military depends largely on its ability to resupply forward areas, and in the Pacific those can be remote and tough to reach. Planners know this is a problem, so in the past few years work on a seaplane has taken place, but nothing has panned out.
Luckily, Japan has a proven and capable seaplane known as the US-2, and we could easily buy it. In this episode, we break down what makes the US-2 special, why the US needs it, what we've tried to build, and even why this may not be the best idea despite how awesome the US-2 is.
Recorded on: August 11, 2026
Written by: Kyle Gunn
Edited by: Savvy
Task & Purpose is a military news and culture-oriented channel. We want to foster discussion about the defense industry.
Join our Discord server
Merchandise
Like this video? You'll love
Sign up for the T&P newsletter
And you can follow us on social, too:
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
