The WIG vehicles have enourmous combition of large payloads and high speed - making them the most potent litoral warships.
Caspian Mosnter was to date the largest with take off weight of 450 tons and 200 tons! payload! It could fly up to 3000m high though preferable hight was just 10m. So it was the largest aircraft. However it was in fact the fastest small ship with speed of 500 km/h.... its range in flying mode was 3000km though it could fly like a boat with a speed of just 40 km/h making its range 5 times more.
With 6 moskit missiles Lun could have no competition in litorral areas. Its speed was 450km/h and take off weight of 160 tons of which 60-70 tons were payload used by moskit missles.
http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1755&catid=272&image=894
http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1755&catid=272
Russian engineers cacluated that WIGs could reach large sizes becoming quite capable carriers of different missile weapons. The last planned designed but not produced by Caspian Mosnter creator, Alexeev in cooperation with Beriliev was planned to have total payload of 2,500 tons to be a refueling for Russian strategic bombers flying over Passific or carrying many missiles itself.....
Even though Lun is now more than 20 years old (though destroyed) there is still no competition to this vehicle created..... could you name any other littoral vehicle which could compete with it?
ps. some more links on WIGs and Amphibian aircrafts
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/903.htm
http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/Drag/WIG.html
Caspian Mosnter was to date the largest with take off weight of 450 tons and 200 tons! payload! It could fly up to 3000m high though preferable hight was just 10m. So it was the largest aircraft. However it was in fact the fastest small ship with speed of 500 km/h.... its range in flying mode was 3000km though it could fly like a boat with a speed of just 40 km/h making its range 5 times more.
With 6 moskit missiles Lun could have no competition in litorral areas. Its speed was 450km/h and take off weight of 160 tons of which 60-70 tons were payload used by moskit missles.
http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1755&catid=272&image=894
http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1755&catid=272
Russian engineers cacluated that WIGs could reach large sizes becoming quite capable carriers of different missile weapons. The last planned designed but not produced by Caspian Mosnter creator, Alexeev in cooperation with Beriliev was planned to have total payload of 2,500 tons to be a refueling for Russian strategic bombers flying over Passific or carrying many missiles itself.....
Even though Lun is now more than 20 years old (though destroyed) there is still no competition to this vehicle created..... could you name any other littoral vehicle which could compete with it?
ps. some more links on WIGs and Amphibian aircrafts
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/903.htm
http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/Drag/WIG.html
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