What a Russian Giant! In Dry Dock too!

Steyr

http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html

concussion

Sweet baby Jesus that thing is big...and ugly as sin! Nice find.

spatchco

Steyer ,excellent photos thanks for publishing,

Steyr

spatchco wrote: »

Steyer ,excellent photos thanks for publishing,

No prob but DEFINATELY not my shots!

ex_infantry man

why do the russian produce huge ugly machines???

Manic Moran

Because they work? They've always put function over form, though often times the form is really quite pretty. Look at a Udaloy vs a Spruance, or a Krivak vs a Perry.

That, is the one, and only, anti-ship model of the Caspian Sea Monster (Ekranoplan) , Lun, with 6x SS-N-22 Sunburns, and two twin gun turrets. (Which are a bit odd. I'd hate to be in the front turret when the missile launches).

In happier times...



Doesn't look in great condition, seems they dragged it on shore and just left it there for a couple of years. Pity.

I wonder what good the elevator is on the tail, though? Not as if they'll be making many altitude, or even attitude changes.

Time/Scale comparison.



NTM

vulcan57

Some video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIr8bjg_o2U

Fishtits

loads of pics of ex Soviet stuff and interesting stories here:

http://englishrussia.com/