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  1. 03-10-2010, 07:22 PM #1
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    Some really cool photos of the Ekranoplan

    http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html

    This thing was a beast! It looks scary just sitting there.
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    its like star trek on water
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    The rediculous size of soviet aircraft never ceases to amaze me....the thing would fly near close to the ground ! its funny looking at all the guns on the thing aswell
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    Yeah it used ground effect to stay in the air. Skimmed just above the surface of the water.
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    not to mention the 6 nuclear capable tubes on its back ;)
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    What in the f........i have never seen anything so beautiful! I love that plane!
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    It reminds me of the part in the movie 2012 where the guy says.. "That plane is huge!" then the russian guy goes "It's Russian."
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    Lun-class ekranoplan. crazy looking thing like it was out of an old video game.

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    Whoa thats awesome.

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    holy S*** what years was this used??
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    looks like it should have been in "The Fifth Element" lol

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    I think some were built around the cold war years. Some of them could fly up to around 250 mph too. They built little ones as well as huge ones. I think the biggest one was the Caspian Sea Monster. It was by far the coolest of all of the Ekranoplans.
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    Oh yeah as a side note, one of the reasons the ekranoplan failed was because of the size. It was actually considered too small! Boeing was at one time developing a version, but im not sure if the project is still going. It was supposed to be called the Pelican, and has a wingspan of 500ft and length of 400ft! The max weight is supposed to be over 2 million lbs. It will only cruise at 20ft above the water, and 20,000ft over land.
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    I'm curious... Why would it fly 20 feet over water and 20,000 feet over land? Difference the air?

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