TIL the Russian Ekranoplane visited NZ in the 1990s
Posted by Random-Mutant@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 2 comments
I didn’t know it went anywhere outside the USSR.
Posted by Random-Mutant@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 2 comments
I didn’t know it went anywhere outside the USSR.
Constantinovich@reddit
That’s not an Ekranoplane, it was a prototype jet seaplane called the A-40… later developed in to the production model, the Be-200 (one of which was recently caught on video being blown up by the Ukrainians).
Atomic__Thunder@reddit
That is the Beriev A-40 Albatros, not an Ekranoplan.