And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was "What the heck?" until I recognized the little dots on the beach as people and then it's true scale kicked in. The Russian ground-effect missile carrier.
A weird picture, somehow futuristic because of the unfamiliar machine. You kind of expect to see Charlton Heston in there somewhere, dressed in an animal skin.
This should be the wreck of one of the soviet's Lun-class "ekranoplans" - ground-effect vehicles developed and used during the '80. Pretty interesting concept still in limited use today, because it needs relatively flat ground (or water) to work...
I was "What the heck?" until I recognized the little dots on the beach as people and then it's true scale kicked in. The Russian ground-effect missile carrier.
ReplyDeleteA weird picture, somehow futuristic because of the unfamiliar machine. You kind of expect to see Charlton Heston in there somewhere, dressed in an animal skin.
ReplyDeleteThis should be the wreck of one of the soviet's Lun-class "ekranoplans" - ground-effect vehicles developed and used during the '80. Pretty interesting concept still in limited use today, because it needs relatively flat ground (or water) to work...
ReplyDeleteThat's one fugly contraption.
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Sully, Sully?
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