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I think that's what NATO nicknamed the "Black Sea Monster". It's about as Orky as everything else Soviet.

If only there wasn't a huge bunch of brush in the way maybe I could actually see it.

It's an ekranoplan - a plane that flies just above the water using the uplift 'reflected' from the water to decrease fuel consumption while being able to go really fast.
The USSR developed it during the cold war but it has 1 tiny flaw - waves!
It only works on a really level surface (eg a lake on a very calm day)

What the hell are those tubes on it's back? This has to have been designed by an Ork. the soviets probably invented a trans dimensional machine, fetched one ork and told it to design them an airplane. I'm surprised it's not red

IIRC they're launchers for either cruise missiles or rocket assisted Torpedoes

That's an Lun-class Ekranoplan. As bubber said it is a GEV (ground effect vehiclce).

The tubes on the back are tubes for P-270 Moskit anti-surface missiles.

If you wanna find out more about GEVs, the "caspian sea monster" os probably the most well known/documented.

Meta.

Here's a pic of it in action.

Typically ugly Russian construction. Big beast of a machine.


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Looking around, there appears to be a 1/144 scale kit available, but nothing bigger... Although even that one's possibly big enough to be useful with some work

The P-270 Moskit (Mosquito) anti-surface missile, AKA SS-N-22 Sunburn, is a mach 2.2 anti-shipping missile designed by the Soviet Union back in the 70-80s and is currently in service with China and also rumored to be in service with Iran as well.

eNvY wrote:If only there wasn't a huge bunch of brush in the way maybe I could actually see it.

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They are huge, american couldnt understand why the russians where leaving the wings of them

Still no matter how big it is that would make an awesome ride and I wonder if the owner has plans to restore it to its former glory?

The benefit of this thing is that it could carry and disgorge a whole infantry division along with corresponding materiel across an entire ocean, set-piece. Basically, it was the Soviet aquanautical response to the Kreigs gorgon.

That the orks would attempt to reproduce this is self-evident. The question would be how to approach it. Perhaps you could make something akin to a powered glider, or something exactly like that (including the wings), but with wheels under it. So long as it has enough dakka...

*in theory* yes, in practice, these things had alot of trouble with stability and turning. If you were going in a strait line on calm seas, you were good to go, otherwise it's fortunate these things were built for water landings

A B-52 mated with a cruiser, in a Russian brothel, and they made this monstrosity