| Come the 50s, Kyt, I think the Neptune, and maybe the Tracker, was well and truly regarded as the maritime patrol replacement. A few other attempts at the flying boat were made (nothing springs to mind at present besides the Martin Mars and that's not really a Cat equivalent...Coronado?) but the Neptune and then the Orion really made an impact. I guess you could argue the emerging abilities of the helicopter had an impact as well from an ASR and anti-submarine point of view.
No idea re start of the war though.
Some generalist comments on my behalf for sure but, in my head, that's the way things seemed to have went. |