{"id":14156,"date":"2012-03-19T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:48:39","slug":"the-beached-corpse-of-a-caspian-sea-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/the-beached-corpse-of-a-caspian-sea-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The beached corpse of a Caspian Sea Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

A LiveJournal post by Igor113<\/a> has lots of photos (and text in Russian) of a visit to the resting place of one of the most fascinating technological relics of the Soviet era — an Ekranoplan:<\/p>\n

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Google translate offers this as the introduction to Igor’s post:<\/p>\n

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Here are my hands and came up ekranoplana. Ya break a story about it for 3 or 4 parts: a winged-outside (1 or 2 parts), 2-winged inside the 3-winged dock.<\/p>\n

In 1987 the water came, “Lun” the first ship of a series of missile-carrying combat WIG weighing 400 tons was the chief designer V.Kirillovyh. The ship was armed with three pairs of cruise missile 3M80 or 80M “Mosquito” (NATO membership designation SS-N-22 Sunburn). The second “Lun” is also being laid as a missile, but the outbreak of the conversion brought about changes, and planned to finish a rescue.<\/p>\n

LTH:
\nModification of the Lun
\nWingspan, m 44.00
\nLength, m 73.80
\nHeight, m \u200b\u200b19.20
\nWing area, m2 550.00
\nWeight, kg
\nEmpty 243 000
\nmaximum take-off 380 000
\n8 turbojet engine type NC-87
\nThrust, kg 8 x 13 000
\nMaximum speed, km \/ h 500
\nOperational range, km 2000
\nThe height of the flight on the screen, 5.1 m
\nSeaworthiness, 6.5 points
\nCrew 10
\nArmament: 6 IP ASM ZM-80 Mosquito<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> has more. In spite of the apparent derelict condition of the Lun<\/em>, Wikipedia mentions plans to resume development in 2012.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Charles Stross sent a tweet with a link to this satellite shot of the Lun<\/em> in dry dock: http:\/\/mapper.acme.com\/?ll=42.88184,47.65690&z=19&t=H<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A LiveJournal post by Igor113 has lots of photos (and text in Russian) of a visit to the resting place of one of the most fascinating technological relics of the Soviet era — an Ekranoplan: Google translate offers this as the introduction to Igor’s post: Here are my hands and came up ekranoplana. Ya break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[123,108,174,30,433],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-technology","tag-aircraft","tag-coldwar","tag-innovation","tag-navy","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}