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I couldn't decide if this belongs in planebucket or here, but for now I'll post it in real designs

One of the more interesting projects of the Soveit Navy were the 'Ekranoplans' as they were dubbed. The Ekranoplan has the advantages of a plane, small size, speed, ect., and a ship, namely carrying cappacity, as well as being hard to detect by radar due to their small size and ability to skim just above the surface. This is the Lun Class of Ekranoplans, only one was every built, and at least another was planned, as a search and rescue plane. The sole survivor, MD-160, is now in storage in Kaspiysk. In 2007, the Russian Ministry of Defence approved continuing construction of this class starting in 2012. Here's some articles from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle

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took me a trip to shipbuckets database located on the front page!

oh! if you'd read wikipedia then it says that "Lun" is 73 meters and somthing, while yours is only 55 meters!?!

Oops, something must have screwed up when I resized.

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I love the Ekranoplan, it is probably my single most favorite Soviet engineering achievement. Not quite sure if I would have wanted to be aboard during a test "flight" though

Maybe I'll do the Never built rescue plane, with Hood's permission of course.

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