Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Abandoned Russian Flying Ship left on a beach on the coast of Russia’s Daghestan Region. In Russian, it's called The Schnoz-ski

 


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  1. ...looks like the "Acronoplan" (sp) which flies in ground-effect over the water...

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  2. the Ekrano-plane. A wing in ground effect vehicle. Not really an airplane or a boat. It floated on the shock wave created by the short wings with a maximum altitude of only 200 feet or so. But, it could haul a division of troops or several tanks. The six launch tubes on the top carried the SAN-3 cruise missile. It was quite a threat in the 60's and 70's but by the 1980's they had fallen out of use and basically left to rot wherever they were parked.

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    1. The intelligence community called it "the Caspian Sea Monster". Never found elsewhere. An interesting concept that could be very useful for over-ocean transport or amphibious assault.

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    2. I recall reading the ship couldn't cruise high enough to tolerate open ocean wave heights, so only good on inland lakes and in relatively good weather.

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  3. Here's a story on this:

    https://interestingengineering.com/towing-gone-wrong-left-russias-ekranoplan-stranded-like-a-beached-whale

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  4. And people were shocked that the USSR collapsed. If we were an intelligent species, we'd be asking why the collapse took so long.

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    1. Because we know now our intelligence agencies were working to collapse our government?

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  5. RE: "...we'd be asking why the collapse took so long." Karl

    Answered long ago by Anthony C. Sutton. Search for his books, some academic & some popular. Here is a FREE pdf of one popular book on the theme of proping up of the communists by the West: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/antony_sutton/the_best_enemy_money_can_buy.pdf

    Dan Kurt

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  6. https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html

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  7. Lots of pictures and videos.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8665541/Gigantic-1980s-Soviet-vehicle-MD-160-dwarfs-Boeing-747-lies-abandoned-Caspian-Sea.html

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