"edu-petrolhead" (edu-petrolhead)
09/08/2014 at 17:55 • Filed to: tips
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"edu-petrolhead" (edu-petrolhead)
09/08/2014 at 17:55 • Filed to: tips | 3
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It was (almost) real!!! The project was presented in 1934, approved in 1936 and abandoned in 1938. If this was finished, the ekranoplane wouldn't be my favorite soviet technology. Here are some renders:
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Conan
> edu-petrolhead
09/08/2014 at 18:02 |
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Ah man. I so have to use slides of it this year.
jariten1781
> edu-petrolhead
09/08/2014 at 18:06 |
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It would have been be a terrible airplane and a terrible submarine...I suppose it looks very science fictiony though.
El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
> edu-petrolhead
09/08/2014 at 18:06 |
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Some day.
norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> jariten1781
09/08/2014 at 18:09 |
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Yeah, terrible hydrodynamics and aero. Can't displace as much as a U-Boat or US boat of the same year.
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jariten1781
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
09/08/2014 at 18:17 |
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I was just thinking of the fundamental concepts. Airplanes need minimal weight. Submarines need heavy ass things in the pressure hull and batteries. Also powering the sea going prop would be a bitch because you'd either need to snorkel on a supplemental diesel, have a massive reduction gear for the air engine, or a motor-generator through electric drive which is again heavy and complicated. So say you work all of that out you're still going to have no range airborne, surfaced, or submerged and you're going to have about no remaining weight allocation for armament. Just bad.
Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> jariten1781
09/08/2014 at 18:26 |
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So the solution is a submarine that can deploy and airplane?
ttyymmnn
> jariten1781
09/08/2014 at 18:50 |
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You're such a party pooper with all your science . This is an insanely awesome, hopelessly stupid idea. And I love it.
Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
> edu-petrolhead
09/08/2014 at 19:26 |
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"It was abandoned in 1938...." When the marketing department handed their press releases to the engineering and design team.
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Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/08/2014 at 19:32 |
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> edu-petrolhead
09/09/2014 at 00:31 |
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Or you know just say Fuck it and drop a torpedo and be back for dinner.
