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In the 1970's when the first American satellite photos were taken of this vessel as it sat inland, it was believed to be a normal Jumbo jet sized aircraft under construction. When the vessel was later photographed sitting in water the questions started to fly "what is it ? "

It is called the Ekranoplan. Ekranoplan is a Russian word it means 'screen craft' or 'skimmer'.



Heres some more info, Star Wars is slowly coming true!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pd8SFCuFpk
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 530929051#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYmSnpQ360
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
http://www.vincelewis.net/ekranoplan.html

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Nice stick in the cockpit. Out of budget when they got into designing it