Fórum Defesa Brasil

Dassault Mystere IVA (France-AF, Cazaux_France, July 4, 1976)



315 / 8-MQ (cn 315) ET1/8 aircraft

* Fred Willemsen

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C1 (RAF, Biggin Hill_England, September 15, 1962)



XN849 / 849 (cn 6753) First flight on October 12, 1961. Sold as scrap at Kemble on June 15, 1973

* Alex Christie

Fiat G-91R/3 (Germany Federal Republic-AF, Leeuwarden_Netherlands, April 14, 1981)



3041 (cn 105) LKG41 visitor, based at Husum

* Henk Schuitemaker

Me lembro de ter montado um Kit da Rewell desse Fiat G91, infelizmente dele só resta lembrança...

Yak-38

coisa de doido!!!!














An %u201Cekranoplan%u201D literally %u201Cscreen plane%u201D is a vehicle resembling an aircraft, but operating solely on the principle of ground effect. Ground effect vehicles (GEV) fly above any flat surface, with the height above ground dependent upon the size of the vehicle. During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as huge, fast-moving objects. The name Caspian Sea Monster was given by U.S. intelligence operatives who had discovered the huge vehicle, which looked like an airplane with the outer halves of the wings removed. After the end of the Cold War, the %u201Cmonster%u201D was revealed to be one of several Russian military designs meant to fly only a few meters above water, saving energy and staying below enemy radar. The KM, as the Caspian Sea Monster was known in the top secret Soviet military development program, was over 100 m long (330 ft), weighed 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 400 km/h (250 mi/h), mere meters above the surface of the water. The important design principle is that wing lift is reduced as operating altitude of the ekranoplan is increased (see ground effect). Thus it is dynamically stable in the vertical dimension. Once moving at speed, the ekranoplan was no longer in contact with the water, and could move over ice, snow, or level land with equal ease. These craft were originally developed by the Soviet Union as very high-speed (several hundred km/hour) military transports, and were mostly based on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The largest could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The development of ekranoplans was supported by Dmitri Ustinov, Minister of Defence of USSR. About 120 ekranoplans (A-90 Orlyonok class) were initially planned to enter military service in the Soviet Navy. The figure was later reduced to less than thirty vehicles, planned to be deployed mainly for the Black and the Baltic Soviet navies. Marshal Ustinov died in 1985, and the new Minister of Defence Marshal Sokolov effectively ceased the funding for the program. The only three operational A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplans built (with renewed hull design) and one Lun-class ekranoplan remained at a naval base near Kaspiysk.

Ekranoplano, classe LUN. Foi uma idéia impressionante q poderia ter resultado em um problema muito sério para as esquadras da OTAN ao se "aproximar" em alta velocidade e lançar sua salva de mísseis anti-navio supersônicos. Mas com o fim da URSS...



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Enlil escreveu:Ekranoplano, classe LUN. Foi uma idéia impressionante q poderia ter resultado em um problema muito sério para as esquadras da OTAN ao se "aproximar" em alta velocidade e lançar sua salva de mísseis anti-navio supersônicos. Mas com o fim da URSS...



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pois é, eu sei que quando vi fiquei pensando, será que saia da água e voava....!!!....realmente esses caras fizeram uma coisa muito impressionante, enorme! hehe!!! mas pelo que parece ele era muito mais util na água...alias um monstro né.

Ekanoplano é um Ground effect vehicles (GEV), veículo de efeito solo, logo, tem que voar rasante para ter o "colchão de ar" sob seu "ventre". O Lun é impressionante, para um ekranoplano de ataque, mas em tamanho nada supera o colossal KM (Korabl Maket):






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Diz a lenda que os americanos ao verem as primeiras fotos tiradas por satélite do KM o apelidaram de "Monstro do Mar Cáspio".


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Eu imagino os problemas de manutenção devido a corrosão que esses bichos devem dar!

Uma pena é ver essa magnifica máquina apodrecendo, deveria no mínimo estar em um museu militar, sendo preservado e recebendo visitação...

Tem alguns, menores, em plena operação, inclusive civis.

Handley Page Victor K2 (RAF, Keflavik_Iceland, August 14, 1980)



XL161 The right side of this rare aircraft type for Keflavik at least.

* Baldur Sveinsson