Alexeyev KM Ekranoplan "Caspian Sea Monster"

[Spartan117FS]

Get a gust of wind and you smack down into the sea...

[Syan48306]

While true, planes can fly in any weather, I'd like to see a plane take off with 380,000 kgs or 840,000 lbs

[ajvhan]

batteries not included

[pe6obutilkata]

this thing can carry 1000 tons of payload. respect for russian designers and engeneers

[NibbleHusky]

and yet we still waste oil to fuel planes that are less economical

[atarom]

THE SPRUCE GOOSE

[Mrjayjubear]

In Soviet Russia plane fly's you!

[ToastDriver]

@Mrjayjubear do you honestly think that's the plural of "fly?" lol

[TheRussianGrimReefer]

@ToastDriver Almost there.. I'd laugh if this wasn't so depressing 

[djbehnkevideo]

@TheRussianGrimReefer weren't*

[TheRussianGrimReefer]

@djbehnkevideo Touché! The subjunctive always kicks my ass..

[djbehnkevideo]

@TheRussianGrimReefer So proud...

[imDarkensei]

Bah... Soviets and their stupid world changing inventions... Thats why they had to be taken out, ya know?...

[Pull0utBoy]

EVERYBODYS RUSSIAN!

[niradg]

LOL. What kind of stupid country would waste all their money on pointless military hardware that they'll never use? Oh, wait...

[eutripchallenge]

@niradg your an idiot ! you know shit.

[coolcookies42]

@eutripchallenge *you're

[eutripchallenge]

@coolcookies42 thank you spell checker. My wireless keyboard sucks, and its time for a new one.

[coolcookies42]

@eutripchallenge i got your back.

[thenfm]

yeah but can it keep a stupid bitch in check: MANHOOD101. COM

[deathdontwait]

pretty nice but will it blend?

[thisshitiscalleddeaf]

@deathdontwait I don't think so.

[Mollives]

vaguely terrifying

[topsy420]

must..crush..capitalism....

[JRCrowley]

@topsy420 interesting comment, because right now capitalism IS being crushed by people who pretend that they're capitalists: the Federal Reserve, the big investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and by the very governments who fought so hard against communism, like the U.S. government. What we have now is not capitalism, but socialism for the wealthy.

[asapvc]

Great idea and concept of nautic flight traveling, asking myself if the soviets had enough of financial matters for the final realisation of this project could it completely replace cargo ships, the traveling time is far to great 300 mph over the ocean and less fuel consumption that a airjet, the soviets had indeed great ideas :)

[david181993]

@asapvc yea but you also have to think what if there was a storm, I doubt this would perform well when there are waves that are even slightly large. Planes however can fly in just about any weather.

[zogworth]

Search for storm on the caspain sea wikipedia page...

[csours]

@david181993 Planes can fly in just about any weather. Landing is a different story.

[david181993]

@csours Not really, planes still don't have trouble landing in almost any weather.

[csours]

@david181993 Microburst thunderstorm. You don't hear of planes being lost to them anymore because planes don't fly through them to land, but there were several (at least 6) planes lost to them in the 70's and 80's before planes started avoiding thunderstorms in their landing pattern.

[david181993]

@csours Yea, I didn't say they can land in any weather. They can still land in most weather.

[Elzon1]

@david181993 They can take waves a little bigger than their wing span when properly maneuvered. These types of craft can also fly over mostly flat ground. If a landing dock was made with a boxed in pool of seawater this craft could also land in any weather. But, as with all craft its easier to avoid bad weather before approaching the landing location. This type of craft will become the norm in the future it just takes a lot of time for the existing dogma to change a little.

[david181993]

@Elzon1 Sorry but I disagree with you there I don't think it ever will be the norm. I mean it may be used it a little bit but I doubt we'll ever get to a time where we see lots of these crossing the sea.

[zConnection]

@asapvc You'd be fucked in a storm.

[t3po7re54]

I would love to see them used on a mass scale

[FIGHTSEEN]

Wow. A (probably) "side project" that actually got made.Figure modern CF construction and fewer more powerful engines could make this puppy a "GO BUILD" in modern times.

[TrickyEmu]

Canada could use this to cross the Hudson bay.

[LoveMeLoveMyDog80]

Rather sad that the future never turns out to be as interesting as everyone expects... Odessa to Istanbul on an Aeroflot Lun. Now that would officially be more cool than Jesus. (the real Aeroflot, back when the crew were sour and the planes were sweet)

[wijmatje]

but can it fly

[appleglory]

cooooool

[DreamBoulevard]

People, please note that not all Lithuanians are as stupid as joejoe4812

[joejoe4812]

@DreamBoulevard

just fuck off jackass, fuckoff. you highschool dropout.

[DreamBoulevard]

@joejoe4812 loser you could only dream of having my life...

Ive flown a wig, you never will.

[joejoe4812]

@DreamBoulevard drem of haing a life of a fucktard!?! of your american LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER  life??

You flown "wig" , you asshat ?!?, LOL.

No, you've flown on a russian DICK! , you assclown! LOL. that's what you've flown, you retard.

[joejoe4812]

you american jackass high-school dropouts think you know more than these designers and builders!!!

you sheer american knack for sheer arrogance and gross stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

[ThePretentious1]

England's better.

[ThePretentious1]

@ThePretentious1 I digress, Mozambique.

[zagyex]

grat, id like to try one. Imagine transatlantic flights with it. not that boring and cheaper.

[joejoe4812]

@rokntoy how mant time do i have to tell you not to admire yourself in the mirror all the time. LOLOL

[Zondrx]

In Russia will resume production of "Caspian Monsters"

Central Design Bureau named Alekseev, known as the developer of "Caspian Monster", intends to resume the design and development work to create a WIG, which subsequently will be used for law enforcement agencies in Russia. This, as reported by Interfax, said the head of department of quality CDB Alekseev Evgeny Meleshko. According to him, CCB received a request the government to resume work.

[crankybeaver]

Looks fucked up to me.

[joejoe4812]

@crankybeaver just like yourself? LOL

[Mishinima]

cool

[1942tj]

The Ekranoplan should be mass produced to do civil services. XD :) And also in the Russian Navy.

[hod05]

real shame this thing is not in a museum

[joejoe4812]

@hod05 real shame YOU'RE not in a museum!

[Buttmunch5000]

amazing technology and an amazing effect, WIG is brilliant , i would love to see one of those things in real life, its longer than an Airbus A380!

[despotslav]

well, it's a good concept, not obviously not all-weather and definitely not radar-inveasible any more. However, it's speedy and real heavy lift... I'm trying to imagine the noise and the force on the construction...

[Vinnikov1991]

Какую технику угробили, и страну...

[MrBombfire1]

i want to c it crash lol :D

[CH1CKENQUIFF]

You been watching youtube too long ;)

[shirixae]

Die, motherfucker!

[joejoe4812]

@DreamBoulevard asshole looikng in to you supid mirror again ass. you american fucktard!!!

[joejoe4812]

Respond to this video...go fuck you self you sorry product of american school system.

NO wonder they put out ignorant know nothings american morons !! 

[DreamBoulevard]

@joejoe4812 dickhead why do you assume everyone who realizes youre full of shit is American? Im not.... go read why these havent been a big commercial success, its because they cant handle big seas you moron.

joejoe, when I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it is.

[joejoe4812]

@DreamBoulevard hey you fuckwit. i can hear an american jackass from ten miles away, YOU are just another retard american high school dropout.

[DreamBoulevard]

@joejoe4812 shows how stupid you are.. I was born about 7000 miles from the US although I have been there, just like the 16 other countries ive been to.

Go learn something before you argue with grown ups little boy.

[basriano]

Who or what is that at 0.29 ??

[octopus136]

Just a second pilot wearing a special russian pilots helmet or better - a kind of head cover.

[biglongcadillac]

I thought the major was a lady suffragette!

[painkillerX00]

it could theoretically face 15-20 feet waves,!

[EmilyHarderFanatic]

would take a lot less time than a cargo ship to get between countries but if there were 30 foot waves, how well would it work?

[joejoe4812]

@EmilyHarderFanatic

Maybe they would fly a little higher? Didn't even cross your genius mind did it? i though so. LOL

[EmilyHarderFanatic]

@joejoe4812 haha idiot, it cant fly higher, its a ground effect vehicle, it cant fly in big seas, it cant just fly higher, then it may as well be a plane... good one genius :P

[joejoe4812]

@EmilyHarderFanatic

you're the REAL idiot for claiming to know what exactly that upper limit is. and ALSO what is the real tradeoff VS. the time the plane has to fly in the choppy sea conditions. YOU STUPID IDIOTIC AMERICAN MORON!!!!!!

you retard american jackass.

[Keinlicht]

i've always wondered what would happen if one of these ran into anything but calm seas, because they run awfully close to the water.

[Victorinoxish]

Russians always had very original ideas about technologies and military investigation, the problem always was, reality & utopy. I´m fascinated about the Ekranoplan idea, the problem maybe is the cost of these creations....

[broperry71]

This was originally to be used to transport 100,00 combat troops or carry armored vehicals such a tanks.

This plane can fly at a conventional aircraft altitude, or a few feet off of the surface of a calm ocean. Even though it flys like an airplane at high speeds. It uses similar conditions to a huvver craft while flying just above water. That means it cases a rush of air underneath the craft that propells the caspian sea monster, or KM Ekranoplan,

at super fast speeds. Built in mass....

[Splooshiba]

its not very green :P

[chuckles1125]

Greener than a DC-10, but not a conatiner ship.

[635574]

if it was cheaper it could replace ships, other than that there's nah chance.

[chuckles1125]

Only difference is a cargo ship uses less than 50 gallons of fuel to move a 40ft conatiner from China to L.A.

[gerhar82]

esse é um dos equipamentos mais incriveis que o homem ja fez mais pesado que um 747 incrivel mesmo