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| Touring the massive Lun Klas Ekranoplan |
| 2016-01-19 |
| [TheBrigade] Russia’s unprecedented monster aircraft ship |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 But, OP, it looks like something from that scifi puppet show from yesteryear. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2016-01-19 19:41 |
| #5 This is all the things you mention OP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile) It only as to work 1/2 the time. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-19 18:05 |
| #4 Been watching it since the mid-70s, it and its many counterparts. IIRC, one of the big problems is that it doesn't take much to harm it -- a floating plastic jug, any other kind of flotsam. Also, they never tested it outside the Caspian, which is, of course, landlocked. It was supposed to be a carrier-killer, but the lack of maneuverability, especially at or near full speed, made it a flying coffin. What is it all of a sudden with all the praise of Russian military hardware? Most of it's junk, or unreliable, or just plain clunky. When you have to build things that uneducated plow jockies can use, you have to make it rugged, durable, and easy to fix. It also makes it about as sophisticated as a bathtub. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2016-01-19 17:25 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-19 04:07 |
| #2 Didn't you [Americans] had a project like this until one day somebody said "Wait a sec, isn't a low flying airplane the most dangerous kind of vehicle there is?"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-19 03:43 |
| #1 AFAIK CHINA has, + still is, expressed interest in using and upgrading such Cold War-era Soviet miltech to help maintain "sea control" ala "hybrid [naval] warfare" agz the USN in East Asia-WESTPAC, + IOR agz both the USN + Indian Navy. NAVAL HIT-N-RUN = NAVAL GUERILLA WARFARE. Post-9-11, the most effective purveyor of Russian Miltech or Navtech, etc, is seemingly CHINA + PLA, NOT VLAD + STILL ECON-STRUGGLING RUSSFED. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-01-19 00:38 |