Ekranoplans

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These are the top 13 most amazing and advanced new technologies invented by and for the military for combat & defense Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr. Number 5 is a Lun-class Ekranoplan This massive flying ship makes an indelible impression on anyone that sees it in person. The only version ever built was designed in the Soviet Union in the 1980’s and was used by the Soviet and later Russian navies from 1987 to the late 1990’s. This remarkable piece of machinery comes equipped with eight turbojet engines that each generate 28,600 lbf of thrust. The Lun is also combat ready with 6 Moskitcruise missiles.

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A Ekranoplan would also be used in the Soviet invasion of Denmark if they had lived up to expectorations. A hand full of prototypes were made and tested. A planned civil cargo variant was partly built, but never tried out. The civil passenger and military utility versions never got off the drawing board.

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Boeing tried a joint venture with the Russians in mid 1990s, but if was unsuccessfully due to political, not corporate issues. American, Ukrainian (until Russia invaded the Dombass region), Chinese, Japanese and Russian firms are trying out various small prototypes for high speed civil use.

Ekranoplans

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