WIG (20 photos) Bashny.Net

The winged "Lun" or project 903

This is truly inspiring human mind, which has no analogues in the world, inspired eight turbojet engines NK-86, capable of overcoming 2000 km, made its first flight in 1985, and in 1990 was admitted to the experimental exploitation in 2010 in a single copy faded rust paint, at its dry dock floating somewhere on the shores of the Caspian Sea.



anti-ship Combat Ships for dynamic air cushion, designed in 1985, capable of simultaneously carry six missile 3M80 (80M "Mosquito», SS-N-22 Sunburn) and 11 crew members.
The main feature of WIG - the ability to fly at a height of one to five meters of the main advantages is worth noting the effect of a sharp increase in carrying capacity of the wing in flight near the surface, which opened in the mid 20-ies of XX century, allows you to raise the vessel weighing 243 tons (380 tons maximum load , a payload of 137 tons, by the way, American B-29 Superfortress that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki can lift a maximum of 60 tons, with a weight of 30, Tu-22M3 - 187, and weighs 94 tons) into the air and allows a speed of 500 km / h, the same B-29 maximum speed 574 km / h.