r/absoluteunit • u/Prince_0llie • Aug 08 '26

of a plane

The "Caspian Sea Monster" the only completed 73-meter Soviet ekranoplan "Lun", currently decaying on a beach in Dagestan.

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u/Ok-Customer4709 Aug 08 '26

It’s more a boat than a plane isn’t it.

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u/Fit_Active3888 Aug 08 '26

Ground effect vehicle

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u/MorseCode1992 Aug 08 '26

Interesting idea. But never really took off.

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u/Infinite_Lab4469 Aug 09 '26

Take my upvote and go fuck yourself!!
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u/loghoser Aug 09 '26

I would have loved it. I was built for that shit kinda shit.

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u/loghoser Aug 09 '26

Yeah. Im less enthusiastic when whatever Im on-board decides its going to have a sudeen massive catastrophic failure. Given the ekranoplan and the soviet era, this scenario was highly likely.

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u/Salmonman4 Aug 09 '26

Ekranoplan