BIGGER than a Jumbo Jet and armed to the teeth with missiles, the Ekranoplan was built by the Soviet Union to carry out lightning attacks on ships. The exotic eight-engine plane-boat hybrid, nickna…
It was 242ft long and 63ft high with a wingspan of 144ft and it travelled at around 340mph.
Work on the MD-160, known as the Lun, the Russian word for harrier, began in the 1970s and the one built entered service with the Soviet navy in 1987. The United States was said to be concerned that it would bring a "new dimension to naval surface warfare”.But the whole programme was cancelled when the Soviet Union collapsed and the existing one was withdrawn from service.
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