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* From [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=33&Itemid=52&limitstart=64 an old comic book].
* Turned [[Up to Eleven]] by the ''[[Star Wars|Clone Wars]]'' comic books, with ''starships'' that operate underwater, crewed by Mon Calamari, appearing during the battle of Kamino. As their commander said while piloting one of the damn things:
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* Top Cow's ''Fathom'' comics had one of these in testing, based on a recovered fighter from the race the titular character was from. Semi-F-14ish with variable wings, but mounted with a forward sweep design.
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* Navy pinnaces in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series are the bastard children of the space shuttle and the B-1R mentioned above, scaled up to the size of a 747. They are interplanetary space craft, [[Space Marine]] assault ships and fighter-bombers rolled into one.
* From the [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]] [[Space Opera]] ''[[Lensman|First Lensman]]'':
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* Similar to the ''Lensman'' example above, the ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' universe gives us the so-called 'Shift' -- an amphibious, flight-capable, yet still tracked tank usually equipped with [[Deflector Shields]] and energy weapons that can operate and fight in pretty much any environment, including some of the more extreme alien ones.
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