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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:
{{quote| '''Commander Merai''': [[What Were You Thinking?|What are they]] ''[[What Were You Thinking?|thinking]]'', defending a water world with ships that can't submerge?}}
* 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]]'':
{{quote| The vehicle, while slow, could go -- literally -- anywhere. It had a cigar-shaped body of magnalloy; it had big, soft, tough tires; it had cleated tracks; it had air- and water- propellers; it had folding wings; it had driving, braking, and steering jets. It could traverse the deserts of Mars, the oceans and swamps of Venus, the crevassed glaciers of Earth, the jagged, frigid surface of an iron asteroid, and the cratered, fluffy topography of the moon; if not with equal speed, at least with equal safety.}}
* 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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