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breanach78
PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:03 pm 
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More youTube wanderings :roll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEt0bCe ... re=related

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It's a Ekranoplan. There was a tv program about it a few years ago. I think it was called something like the "Caspian sea monster" or similar.

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It's successor, the "Lun", is stored at Kaspiysk on the Caspian Sea. Use Google Maps and you can clearly see it in the harbour.

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Vostok Europe make a watch named after the Ekranoplan -

http://www.russia2all.com/vostok-europe ... 43201.html

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It what is called a Wing in Ground Effect (WIG) vessel. Faster than a ship because it travels out of the water. It can carry a bigger load than an airplane as it only flies within the ground effect giving it a greater lift capacity than if it floew out of the ground effect.

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Top comment on YouTube pretty much sums it up: "That thing looks like a water batmobile." LOL.

But yeah, not surprised the Russians made something cool like this. Their experimental vehicles, especially in the Soviet era, were pretty neat.
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