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Insane Russian Flying Boat Bomber
Posted on: Thu, 18/03/2010 - 22:18
Ian Wood
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Insane Russian Flying Boat Bomber
Yes, I know that title sounds like spam, but this link is safe for work...
http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html
A load of photos of a huge flying boat bomber, looks like Fifties SF gone wrong, could be good source material for weathering etc. when painting decrepit Imperial and Ork equipment.
Ian
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I'm sure one of these will be in the next guard codex.....
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There are indeed a lot of photos, a great source of reference material for rust and weathering.
It looks like a more recent version of an aircraft the Russians developed during the cold war. (Known over here as the Caspian sea monster I think.) Thing would be useless as a bomber if it is, they only flew around 50 feet above the ground. Could carry a hell of a lot though and were developed as transports.
The cold war plan was to fly over the pacific below radar level and deliver whole tank platoons right onto US soil.
It's a Russian Ekranoplan, works by ground effect and essentially flys along on a cushion of air about 20ft above the deck.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster
Has some interesting reading on it......some of it might even be true!
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Love it! Those crazy soviets!
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"Woah, that's a big plane."
"It's Russian"
(The only good thing to come out of 2012 and the Magic Neutrino's!)
lol..the science in that film was up there with The Core and Armageddon but I must admit a part of me still enjoyed the spectacle of it.
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Ah Lomo you beat me to posting its name!!
Hear, hear! Doesn't really look like it'd actually work. Nice weathering examples though.