Water bomber
A water bomber is an aircraft dedicated to firefighting, and in particular for forest fires. It can be a helicopter or a sea plane. Generally it is a conversion of a former military or cargo aircraft, but some were designed and built at the beginning like water bombers. It is the case of Canadian Canadair CL-215. Water bombers are used both by air forces, administrations, and private societies.
Water Bomber Media
A DC-10 Tanker operated by a private contractor for the U.S. Forest Service demonstrates a water drop during "Thunder Over The Empire Air Fest" at March Air Reserve Base, Calif. (2012)
A Neptune Aviation Lockheed P2V drops fire retardant at Pine Mountain, Oregon. (2014)
State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) Mil Mi-8MTV picking up water near Nizhyn
A Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious flying boat air tanker
An Italian Canadair CL-415 at work
Lockheed P-3A Orion operated by Aero Union
A PZL M-18 Dromader drops water near Mobridge, South Dakota, in the US.
Beriev Be-200 filling water tanks in the Mediterranean Sea while in operation against the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire in Israel
An Ilyushin Il-76TD of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps demonstrates aerial firefighting at an air show.
An Antonov An-32 of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine dumps water on a forest fire.
Film showing Waterbombers from the California Air National Guard dropping substances used to fight fires
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