What Happened To The Giant Ekranoplan Harrier?

The Ekranoplan Harrier was a miracle of Soviet engineering, and the "Caspian monster", the largest ship in the world, had never appeared before. Understanding the history of the Lun plane is full of surprises. The Ekranoplan 903 "Lun", designed as a new generation powerful weapon, was produced at the Nizhny Novgorod plant in 1986 and successfully tested, but could not demonstrate its combat capabilities. This project was abandoned for unknown reasons. Currently, Airplanes are very promising.The largest aircraft carrier of the Navy After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the government lost support for the expensive Ekranoplan rocket building project, and as time went by, all copies of one such ship were lost to oblivion.

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[Cosmicnexus]

The Russians have a lot of crazy inventions.

[mashelalnaar]

I think you'll find when the cost of Chernoybl clean up started going beyond $15 billion rubles, these projects and any like it were shelved, obviously due to lack of funding.

[zachhicks]

That is not the Caspian monster it is smaller and the Caspian monster was supposedly scrapped

[robertttttt]

Yes built by the old Soviet Union they came up with a lot of useless crap. It was the Soviet Union's version of the spruce goose, flying coffin.

[TheNemocharlie]

It's not supposed to fly like an aircraft, just to skim the surface... It's pronounced ek ran o plan. It was supposed to be a trooper carrier.
It has nothing to do with the spuce goose because it's nemesis was the hike in oil costs of the 70's

[JT-gqwv]

Surface t o surface missile cylinders on its back