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Pretty muchDidn't the Soviets have one of these things to transport goods? Rather than using ships for faster delivery?
Sorry DerekIndeed, they named one the "Caspian Sea-Monster" and it was huge! Ground effect vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That looks to be a pretty small craft, if that's the engine mount on the top then I'd say 1 or 2 crew at the most. Cool post, though.
Derek
Its propaganda for the masses. Keep them fed with images of how the theocracy is defending the poor Iranian public from the Great Satan US in hopes that the Iranian people wont rise up and hang them all from the lamp posts for keeping them in the 8th century while the world races away into the future.
Iran and North Korea are becoming more and more the same.
Those things look like target drones. Maybe the designer had that in mind.
It's not a new idea
it's an up-to-date rework on the Soviet Ekranoplan, borne out by the reverse-delta wing config for exploiting ground effect when it's skipping along close to the water.
I still think it isI dont believe its a ground effect craft anymore than the Lake. Just a simple seaplane with an attempted stealth airframe. The video clearly shows it flying higher than ground effect height