The US has gobs of stuff already, thus adding the PBY would only kill one bird with one stone.
well,,,more than one country used it,,,,the PBY cat was made in the usa,, and ussr,,and canada,,,it was use by almost all countries till the 1960's,,,ussr used them,,,france,,,canada,,uk,,even aussie used them,,and still used for helping with forest fires still to this day,,,and its allmost 70years old!!,,lol,,this plane has been around sence the 1930's..and proubly one of the only plane left from the 1930s that is still used to this day for work!!,,lol pby was slow,,but it had great range and very tuff
the emily was a good plane,,but!!,,i think there was only 131 made i beleve,,mite be wrong on that,,,but that aint a very big run compared to the pby {over 4,000 made}which was made by 3 major ww2 powers,,and used from the 1939,.,,till now,,,hard to look over a plane that was used for so many things,,by so many countries<~~pby kills allmost 3 birds with one stone
ussr could sure use a pby would be there best bomber around,,lol
