The Bumblebee was the United States of the Seas' response to dwindling strike capability as their fighter jets were cannibalized over and over again for lack of new spares. A simple floatplane that can be turned into a landplane, the name is an allusion to the F/A 18 Super Hornet. This arrangement was chosen both to keep the aircrew away from cold waters and to make it easier to fly.

Just like the Housecat, it's seen action in USS expeditions all over the Atlantic, most notably against the city-states in the Eastern Seaboard that have resisted USS influence. These cities mostly extend from the former lands of Delaware fown to South Carolina, with the northern former US States from New Jersey to Maine being either controlled or influenced by the USS, forming their main continental presence; the most powerful of these being the Megalopolis formed from what remains of New York.