There are a lot of technical reasons "why not," but that hasn't stopped the United States from trying, Fellow baby boom kids will remember the Flying Sub on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and they didn't entirely make that up. From the US Naval Institute:
"In the early 60s, the Navy studied the feasibility of a Submersible Seaplane (or "Subplane"). The craft would spot enemy submarines from the air, land on the water, submerge, and then pursue the subs undersea. Scale models were built and tested but the project was canceled in 1965."
Decades later, DARPA would give it another shot, but this one never even got to the model stage. Will we ever see one? I rather doubt it, but it would be SO cool.
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