WTF, Russia?!

[leftcoastdeac]

Has anyone ever seen this thing before?

http://www.businessinsider.com/take...-gigantic-nuclear-equipped-ekanoplane-2012-1#

 

[deacdiggler]

nope. looks like a piece of shit.

 

[AnonymousDeac]

Looks like a prop from a shitty movie.

 

[Screamindemon3]

Great place to hold the World Cup IMO, well done FIFA

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

lol at the "Obama is finished" tag. It seems like most of Russia hasn't been touched since the Cold War ended.

 

[EatLeadCommie]

What a dumb plane. Seas higher than 16 feet would doom it.

 

[tsywake]

What amazed me is that NATO spyplanes took 4 years to spot it's existence. You'd think we'd have someone who new about it the minute it went into service.

 

[ipitytheblue]

that's so fucking awesome. i love shit like that.

i can't believe it was a real thing they used.

 

[dmcheatw]

reminds me of the spruce goose, whuch couldn't really fly either.

here is the biggest airplane in the world right now:

 

[ipitytheblue]

 

[ImTheCaptain]

looks like a GI Joe vehicle

 

[bth9673]

Red Skull didn't die, he just defected.

 

[wakelaxer]

The US had their share of large hovercraft as well.

 

[MBDeac08]

Looks like a prop from a shitty movie.

Looks like something a Bond villain would fly around in.

 

[OGBDeacon07]

Looks like something a Bond villain would fly around in.

That's what I was thinking.

They didn't really show us many inside pics.... Wondering how big is the bay for the troops to sit?

 

[TexasDeac10]

that's so fucking awesome. i love shit like that.

i can't believe it was a real thing they used.

This is so, so, so cool. It's like a hover-fortress.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Has anyone ever seen this thing before?

http://www.businessinsider.com/take...-gigantic-nuclear-equipped-ekanoplane-2012-1#

I'm pretty sure there was a painting of one of these in a book about Soviet aircraft that I read in middle school around 1990. It showed Soviet soldiers pouring out of it invading some beach. Wish I could remember the title it had some great pictures of badass Soviet Hinds in it.

 

[vadimivich]

lol at the "Obama is finished" tag. It seems like most of Russia hasn't been touched since the Cold War ended.

That couldn't be farther from the truth. Stuff like this is just rotting away in warehouses, same as most of the US Cold War oddities.

 

[vadimivich]

reminds me of the spruce goose, whuch couldn't really fly either.

here is the biggest airplane in the world right now:

There's only of those in the world - it's owned by a Ukrainian company that uses it to fly all sorts of strange objects (train locomotives, chimneys and generators for power plants, 200,000+ meals for US soldiers, etc) that nobody else in the world can move by air. The US military and various aid organizations regularly contract it out for transport jobs.

The thing carried 4 main battle tanks at one time in a test, and was designed to fly the Soviet space shuttle around. It's just a crazy beast of a plane.

 

[dot com]

Any idea how it compares to this behemoth I saw at Davis-Monthan AFB?