jr
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkoMUjDfmk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqrVs9oycM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6HQSNERadQ
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All Torque
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jr
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look like somthing that was designed to be in thunderbirds i think, but weight 500tonnes and was 
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what is it? i have no idea lol.
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marklawton
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what the hell is it and what is it suppose to do?
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jr
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 its an Soviet Ekranoplan
designed to fly a few feet abover water to stop beeing picked up by radar
that version was so called as leading up to the cold war, it was spotted in the caspian sea by US radar in a port on the caspian sea, they couldnt work out what the fook it was, as it was bigger than any bomber, but had tiny wings, it was named the caspian sea monster, as they had no idea what the fuck it was, an it took them 15 years to work out what it was
was desihned to carry troops and weapons 1000 of miles undetected
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i agree with the sentiments of the chap in the third video 
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jr
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drunkenfool
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A couple have been spotted on Google Earth on the Caspian Sea coast. See http://www.philgarner.net/ekranoplan.kmz
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
A couple have been spotted on Google Earth on the Caspian Sea coast. See http://www.philgarner.net/ekranoplan.kmz
its looks like a shitty industrial estate then theres that thing
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jr
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If you think the A380 is big and impressive read on. Try and imagine a flying machine powered by 10 jet engines (yes 10 jet engines) bigger than the A380, bigger than the Antonovs, bigger than every aircraft listed on my previous post flying at close to 350 mph just a few feet above water. Something out of a Flash Gordon comic book or an episode of the Thunderbirds perhaps?
This post is about one of the most awesome flying machines ever built and sadly one of the least known.
During the Cold War military analysts at the Pentagon were routinely tasked with studying various reconnaisance photographs taken over the Soviet Union by American spy satellites and Francis Gary Powers and his mates. One such set of photographs taken over the Caspian Sea stunned the Pentagon analysts. The photographs showed a giant high speed unidentified object over the Caspian Sea. The analysts were unable to immediately identify the UFO or call on the services of Mulder & Scully (little Mulder would probably have been searching for the truth in his school's playground and little Scully would probably have been conducting autopsies on Barbie dolls at the time).
The Americans aptly nicknamed the object The Caspian Sea Monster. In later years further details about this extraordinary machine began to emerge.
Designed and built in the 1960s under a veil of secrecy by the Alexeiev Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau in the Soviet Union the KM Ekranoplan was a flying machine like no other. Weighing in at 540 tons, 300 ft from nose to tail and powered by 10 turbo jets it was capable of flying at close to 350 mph just a few feet above the surface of the sea. Its unique design enabled it to fly low enough to avoid conventional radar detection and high enough to avoid submarine sonar detection making it ideal for the Soviet Navy.
The Ekranoplan made use of an aerodynamic principle known as Ground Effect. When an aircraft flies close to the ground the efficiency of the wing or the lift generated is greatly enhanced. This is due partly due to the creation of a cushion of air between the wing and the ground and also a reduction in the wing tip vortices which in turn reduces induced drag. A vehicle purely designed to fly in the ground effect regime is called a GEV or a WIG (wing in ground effect). The Ekranoplans in spite of their massive weight were able to fly in this regime due to the reduced lift requirements. Not quite a ship, not quite a hovercraft and not quite an aircraft either. Now you know why I did not mention this in my previous post 
Several variants of this unique machine were developed including the fully armed LM Ekrnaoplan which was equipped with anti ship missile launchers. As the Cold War drew to an end and the funds dried up the project gradually wound down.
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CorsAsh
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jr, is Ojc using your computer? 
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Robin
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or Paul J
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jr
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sorry, it is very ojc esque
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CorsAsh
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quote:
Originally posted by robmarriott
or Paul J
Or PoJC?
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Robin
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PoJC, the nazi tellytubby?
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Robin
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didnt some company recently try to build a cargo plane which does the same?
its really economical iirc, need less lift, and therefore less drag.
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jr
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boeing ???
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Robin
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no idea. cant remember who.
i might actually be making it up.
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Conway563
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I was waiting for some loch ness monster type thing
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Jules
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quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
what is it? i have no idea lol.
quote:
Originally posted by marklawton
what the hell is it and what is it suppose to do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYmSnpQ360
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very interesting aircraft indeed! the russians got that one right IMO
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