Ekranoplan KM 'Caspian Sea Monster' seaplane (Russian)

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ragemanchoo82

ragemanchoo82

16 жыл бұрын

Sorry its in Russian! :(
Note: The 6-engined jet at 0:40 is the Antonov 225, which is presently the largest aircraft in the world, period. Its a cargo transporter and its cargo bay is so large it can hold most of the assembled components of a Boeing 747. The Russian space shuttle Buran can be attached to its back for transport as well. The aircraft at 1:23 is the Orlyonok ekranoplan, which as of October 2007 is in the process of being restored for an upcoming Russian aircraft exhibition in Moscow. (Or at least, that's what I've read on the net.) There are thought to be maybe one or two other surviving Orlyonoks besides this one. The aircraft at 7:35 is the Lun ekranoplan, which is based on the KM 'Caspian Sea Monster', but smaller.
From the wikipedia article: An ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н, literally "screen plane") is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but which operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian эффект экрана effekt ekrana - from which the name derived). Ground effect vehicles (GEV) fly above any flat surface, with the height above ground dependent upon the size of the vehicle. Ekranoplan design was conceived by revolutionary Soviet engineer Rostislav Alexeev.
During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as huge, fast-moving objects. The name Caspian Sea Monster was given by US intelligence operatives who had spotted the huge vehicle, which looked like an airplane with the outer halves of the wings removed. After the end of the Cold War, the "monster" was revealed to be one of several Soviet military designs meant to fly only a few meters above water, saving energy and staying below enemy radar.
The ekranoplan has a lifting power of 1,000 tonnes, among the largest ever achieved. The KM, as the Caspian Sea Monster was known in the top secret Soviet military development program, was over 100 m long (330 ft), weighed 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 400 km/h (250 mph), mere meters above the surface of the water. Another model was the Lun-class, entering service with the Black Sea Fleet in 1987; the Lun-class vehicles had a top speed of 550 knots.
The important design principle is that wing lift is reduced as operating altitude of the ekranoplan is increased (see ground effect). Thus it is dynamically stable in the vertical dimension. Once moving at speed, the ekranoplan was no longer in contact with the water, and could move over ice, snow, or level land with equal ease, though flight over land would have involved extreme risks unless the surface were very dependably flat.
These craft were originally developed by the Soviet Union as very high-speed military transports, and were based mostly on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The largest could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The development of ekranoplans was supported by Dmitri Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the USSR. About 120 ekranoplans (A-90 Orlyonok class) were initially planned to enter military service in the Soviet Navy. The figure was later reduced to fewer than thirty vehicles, planned to be deployed mainly for the Black and the Baltic Soviet navies. Marshal Ustinov died in 1985, and the new Minister of Defence Marshal Sokolov effectively stopped the funding for the program. The only three operational A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplans built (with renewed hull design) and one Lun-class ekranoplan remained at a naval base near Kaspiysk.
The two major problems which the Soviet Era Ekranoplanes faced were: 1) Longitudinal stability and 2) Highly reliable navigation & automatic control systems that were not very advanced at the time.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, ekranoplans have been produced by the Volga Shipyard in Nizhni Novgorod located at 56°21'58.08?N, 43°52'14.26?E.
Besides the development of appropriate design and structural configuration, special automatic control systems and navigation systems are also being developed. These include special altimeters with high accuracy for small altitude measurements and also lesser dependence on weather conditions. According to many extensive experiments and research activities, it has been shown that "Phase Radio-altimeters" are most conducive for such applications as compared to laser, isotopic or ultrasonic altimeters.
As of October 19th, 2009 one ekranoplans could be seen on Google Earth at Kaspiysk: The Lun, located at 42°52'54 N, 47°39'24 E. A structure on a nearby beach may be a third disassembled ekranoplan. An Orlyonok was formerly at 42°52'50 N, 47°39'57 E but it has since been moved to Moscow where it sits on display.
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@cesarvidelac
@cesarvidelac 14 жыл бұрын
My country needs a craft like this, more than 4000 km of coast, Easter Island at 4800 km offshore... The ideal boat-plane!
@oniisanmaaku
@oniisanmaaku 16 жыл бұрын
I am so glad I can understand Russian -- This is really interesting.
@CoIdHeat
@CoIdHeat 11 жыл бұрын
Fascinating engineering
@ecktoeman
@ecktoeman 16 жыл бұрын
Proves the axiom "If it's ugly it's British, if it's weird it's French and if it's both it's Russian" But those are some pretty cool airplanes.
@blyndrotor
@blyndrotor 15 жыл бұрын
The theory is that on take off it was awfully inefficient but the science of WIG (wing in ground effect) shows that it should be more efficient than conventional aircraft.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 11 жыл бұрын
The first spy photographs from American satellite showed a strange aircraft carrying letters "KM" on its fuselage. CIA disambiguated it as "Kaspian Monster", which in reality it meant "Korabl maket" - "prototype ship" in Russian.
@ssrepubliqu
@ssrepubliqu 13 жыл бұрын
@StiviGun1 They them selves would not participate in close combat, but would instead either act as cruiser ships and fire missiles or land troops and tanks on the enemy shore. The beauty is they are nor detected by the radars which means they can creap up and no one would expect them, also they travel mega fast. The consept itself is quite facinating as well, because it flyes and swims, yet it is nor a ship nor a plane.
@ElectronLord
@ElectronLord 14 жыл бұрын
One sidewinder and that thing will fall out of the sky like a 50 ton brick. bad idea i think, but awesome piece of engineering just for its sheer gargantuan stature.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 13 жыл бұрын
@StiviGun1 Both have jet engines -- the Orlyonok has two, they're build into the body of the plane, towards the front. The intakes are just forward of the cockpit windows. Eight or so Orlyonoks were built, at least one (maybe two?) surivive. The original monster, shown in the opening shot, crashed in the 1970s. It was one of a kind. A second slightly smaller version with missile launchers was built in the 1980s, that's the Lun at 7:35, which was "put in service" but I dont know what extent
@KALEIDOSCOPEN
@KALEIDOSCOPEN 12 жыл бұрын
the air force told me i would pilot something like this aircraft back in the 80s
@milosit
@milosit 15 жыл бұрын
Now I know where Gerry Anderson got all his ideas for The Thunderbirds.
@hunterF6
@hunterF6 16 жыл бұрын
amazing things! the ship's capability the aircraft's speed!!!
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 13 жыл бұрын
@MrCoffeeandWine It could fly if they wanted it to, at least the Orlyonok could. It was designed to fly at relatively low altitudes, though. The KM and Lun didn't get higher than about 20 feet off the water.
@-Muhammad_Ali-
@-Muhammad_Ali- 14 жыл бұрын
this thing has the record for flying things of 544 tons (!)
@cesarvidelac
@cesarvidelac 14 жыл бұрын
@SuburbAllied I've heard about a project by Beriev, it's an ekranoplan with two bodies and greater wingspan, it's capable to fly at aircraft altitudes, the only setback is fuel consumption, ti shortens the range in half but enables the craft to pass above a storm. I've heard also that this planes could fly higher, but the problem is the same, fuel. Ground effect rises lift up, so saves energy; that's the main concern rather than altitude itself. :) It would be thrilling: 500 kmh and waves!
@MrMoorkey
@MrMoorkey 13 жыл бұрын
@ragemanchoo82 Lun was the first of a projected fleet of anti-ship ekranoplans. However, a change in attitude in the upper echelons of the soviet navy meant the focus changed from spending money on new projects, to maintaining more conventional equipment. Only one Lun' was built. It sits under maintenance now, whilst it's sister, Spasatel, remains unfinished.
@Lexe34
@Lexe34 14 жыл бұрын
Yes you are right Ladoga Lake placed near to Finland. But KM Ekranoplan never flying above Ladoga lake water. This ekranoplan was tested only on Caspian sea. Ladoga Lake not has strategic status becouse placed in to Russia area and not has exit to sea. Exit from Ladoga to sea may only through Neva river and Finnish gulf
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what I've read. It would be neat to see photos or footage of it more than 30 feet off the surface.
@davidlucasfer
@davidlucasfer 14 жыл бұрын
espectacular
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
It would seem like a regular seaplane but with jet engines would be more practical than an ekranoplan. Apparently Boeing is considering very large cargo transporter seaplane, the Pelican (which has four prop engines with very large propellers), but its almost certainly not going to happen in this economy.
@supertruckertx
@supertruckertx 16 жыл бұрын
I wish I could've understood what the guy was saying. Either way, very entertaining.
@dieuwerf
@dieuwerf 14 жыл бұрын
It was highly classified, and it couldnt fly anywhere with proper waves. Thats what killed it, it couldnt handle anything except a flat surface. Correct me if im wrong :)
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
Yep. That was its big downfall, and coincidentally how it met its demise. There's a wikipedia article on it.
@michaelhand4320
@michaelhand4320 11 жыл бұрын
we should have some.very cool looking
@wendellb36
@wendellb36 13 жыл бұрын
I guess the ekranoplan gap never held much concern with NATO Ide love to see this tschnology expanded
@ZealotKommunizma
@ZealotKommunizma 14 жыл бұрын
If they could have got them to fly elsewhere, those missiles would have been useful. If the objective is to come up with a vessel capable of carrying missiles, then it makes sense that you'll also place missiles on it while testing it =)
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
olynl -- You're probably thinking of the Boeing Pelican. The project has been put on hiatus, probably mostly due to the Bush recession and eventual stock market crash. I don't think it got past the small-scale model testing stage. Its a large, boxy plan with four propeller engines.
@karadan100
@karadan100 14 жыл бұрын
They are using ground effect to fly. An enormous amount of power is required to get it out of the water, but once airborne, you need much less power for stable ground effect flight. These craft made the Americans crap themselves when they found out about them. They could do 500 mph and were undetectable by radar!
@razer666L
@razer666L 14 жыл бұрын
How many MBTs(main battle tank),armoured vehicles and passengers(or infantry)that this plane can carry?
@globalpilot76
@globalpilot76 13 жыл бұрын
Vasily : Comrade...It not lift !! No fly good!! Yvgeny : it ok comrade. Not be nervous....we put more motors on,,,,
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
That's the LUN, just another view. The LUN was actually a little smaller than the Caspian Sea Monster. The appearance is similar, though.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 14 жыл бұрын
Yeah I saw that. :) Its one of the sets of coordinates in the description.
@ssrepubliqu
@ssrepubliqu 13 жыл бұрын
@ragemanchoo82 well if you get it to fly, would it not be an airplane?
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
Good question. I think it happened out in the Caspian Sea, though, so nobody was around to film it. I could be wrong.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
Haha :D I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, this DOES look like a vehicle you'd see in the show..
@lostinseganet
@lostinseganet 15 жыл бұрын
The best hmmm...this is a great achievement through.
@a380j
@a380j 14 жыл бұрын
nice video by the way i saw a plane on pictures that kinda looked like that but inseted had many things on its body of the plane looked miltary i belive but it looked exactly the same but with missles in the back i belive
@maiga71
@maiga71 14 жыл бұрын
this were great deterrent weapons, when the west found out they were very surprised and had to keep an eye on every single of those planes, granted there werent many built.
@alongthebluff
@alongthebluff 15 жыл бұрын
is that still functional (serviceable)?
@Gargantu4
@Gargantu4 16 жыл бұрын
what if ther's a storm? whit maybe wave like 8 meters?and ther's an actual project of this vehicle ?
@Nyusziorsth
@Nyusziorsth 14 жыл бұрын
Was it only used on the Caspien sea? Why?
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
Its been moved??
@rangelso
@rangelso 15 жыл бұрын
Any data on fuel consumption ?. It must've devoured tons per second
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 11 жыл бұрын
You sure sound like you paid attention in school. :)
@lostinseganet
@lostinseganet 15 жыл бұрын
Wow what was it called?
@mamayanga
@mamayanga 16 жыл бұрын
what was that?
@ap0lmc
@ap0lmc 13 жыл бұрын
I have heard that Russia were going to develop it for civilian use as it could carry heavy cargo and transport faster and more efficient than ships. Austrailia was very interested. I wonder what happened?
@morriscamorris
@morriscamorris 16 жыл бұрын
Grrrrrr I don´t undersand russian!!! I would like to know what they say. I admire the technology developed by russians. Amazing!
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
I just hope the Russian I put in the video description is accurate. I used Google's translator tool to get it.
@andgate2000
@andgate2000 15 жыл бұрын
50 years old, carried as much as a ship, travelled as fast as a jet. To low for radar, no sonar signiture when flying.Died because lack of funding when the USSR and the cold war stopped!
@productetc
@productetc 16 жыл бұрын
rad.
@TheOkami1113
@TheOkami1113 13 жыл бұрын
It's the Raven from Empires and Allies
@Tclans
@Tclans 15 жыл бұрын
I for one am not Russian. But i agree to you
@Neophlegm
@Neophlegm 15 жыл бұрын
I want one :D
@ZealotKommunizma
@ZealotKommunizma 14 жыл бұрын
For military reasons?
@Aloysius458
@Aloysius458 15 жыл бұрын
Its kinda funny to see it in Google earth, but whats weird is it belongs to Russia but it is in the United States of America in some shipping port.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 14 жыл бұрын
Since its essentially a giant land-locked lake the weather and surf tend to be more predictable. That and in the Caspian Sea they probably wouldn't have to worry about the military vessels of unfriendly nations (namely the US or UK) passing by and spying. On that note, you'd think Lake Ladoga would be better for testing since its entirely land-locked by Russia. Maybe it wasn't big enough?
@VitekPrchal
@VitekPrchal 16 жыл бұрын
youre wrong. its not airplane. The ground effect gave it superior load capacity-it could carry 540 tons of cargo (900 troops + 2 APCs). Since it flew some 5-15 meters over surface, it couldnt be harmed by sea weapons (torpedoes/mines), and really hard to shotdown by missiles if that time. So - think about it as ultimate transporter-more expensive then ship, but many times faster, and superiorly efficient compared to airplane.Even tho the project 903 Lun served in soviet army as missile carrier.
@taipan185
@taipan185 15 жыл бұрын
Apart from the fact it was utterly useless outside a lake or in crap weather. That would of had more to do with being scuttled as a post cold war project.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 13 жыл бұрын
@SvenDansk7 I don't have the English transcript, sorry :(
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 15 жыл бұрын
I think its ominous looking. Kind of scary...
@Aleksandar_M
@Aleksandar_M 12 жыл бұрын
I am responsible for 300.000 of these views.
@SuburbAllied
@SuburbAllied 14 жыл бұрын
whateva it is, it can't be fun to operate that ting in heavy seas
@mouselg
@mouselg 14 жыл бұрын
@crabtrap has two turbojets under "nose" They are intented to fly in the ground efect not like a plane.
@Imreadingthisaloud
@Imreadingthisaloud 13 жыл бұрын
im watching this and all I hear is "McCroya minyat Den Magazeeen!" damn COD...
@sukhoi235
@sukhoi235 14 жыл бұрын
actually not, this could be very effective in quick hit and run attack on enemy aircraft carrier or battle group, its flying on only few meters altitude so radar cant detect it....in fact this was very inovative and intressting plane, too bad it never went into serial production :(
@welkijken
@welkijken 13 жыл бұрын
this is how the soviets would bring in there T80's ashore :P. good thing the 3rd world war never started.
@sonofhendrix
@sonofhendrix 16 жыл бұрын
how could a sea plane fly all that way under the radar in stealth???
@TehBluebear
@TehBluebear 14 жыл бұрын
@lechevaliernoirboss 500km/h, not mph. So about 250~mph.
@fobos88s
@fobos88s 14 жыл бұрын
обидно то что эта машина стоит эти машины на данный момент не стоят на вооружении =(
@unit666industries
@unit666industries 14 жыл бұрын
big planes
@landsbergisLT
@landsbergisLT 14 жыл бұрын
500km/h or 310.69 Miles/hour (mph)
@joetomw222
@joetomw222 16 жыл бұрын
It didnt crash and can be seen on google earth at 42.881667,47.656667
@balgurjit82
@balgurjit82 14 жыл бұрын
gosh they were so advance then......
@keysersozefede
@keysersozefede 15 жыл бұрын
i don't think that this monster will work in heavy seas...
@mouselg
@mouselg 15 жыл бұрын
I think this would not have worked in other seas like Black sea beacuse they are very sensible to waves. What is the autonomy of this giants?they seem to suck lots of kerosene
@diagnosticobd
@diagnosticobd 12 жыл бұрын
translate please,this is very interesting
@gogiva
@gogiva 14 жыл бұрын
low speed??? this thing goes faster than 600km/h
@xaviourte
@xaviourte 15 жыл бұрын
not really there was one that did it in order to pass over a big wave and the thing how ot fly is that it use a ground effect that make that air will"bounce"on ground and go back on the wing increasing is lift. when he gain more altitude he loose this lift and thus is not really god (really not good) du to his wight and form of wing so the pilot lifted it and stall and crash so no if he tryed to climb to evitate a wave imagine 2 km
@DickerMax
@DickerMax 14 жыл бұрын
even more than 800 km/h...
@beserker1912
@beserker1912 13 жыл бұрын
lol i heard cowboys from hell in there
@ArzAcarnum
@ArzAcarnum 13 жыл бұрын
Its carries chuck norris to church.
@hellavadeal
@hellavadeal 15 жыл бұрын
Cool craft , not to practical . Still cool tek
@tbmavengerstuka
@tbmavengerstuka 16 жыл бұрын
aaaa, nice to be russian
@Carrera911Fan
@Carrera911Fan 12 жыл бұрын
i want one
@CoIdHeat
@CoIdHeat 11 жыл бұрын
I wonder how it would perform with 10m high waves
@cuemaster
@cuemaster 11 жыл бұрын
thats a gloryus hunk of junk. it was shovel ready though i guess.
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
^ And comments like this are the only thing you offer the site (ZERO videos uploaded.) Whats your excuse?
@CoIdHeat
@CoIdHeat 11 жыл бұрын
Exept for russia, china, india, pakistan and north korea
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын
Oleg, you're being sarcastic, right?
@crven53
@crven53 13 жыл бұрын
rapid long range troop deployment (read usa invasion)
@johnconor1711
@johnconor1711 12 жыл бұрын
More LUNA Missile carrier footage: watch?v=WB0yCawyTQk
@CF1791ROLFMAO
@CF1791ROLFMAO 12 жыл бұрын
carriers him to church? but why would he worship himself?
@Syphonaptera
@Syphonaptera 16 жыл бұрын
I want to buy one!! Russian dominance here! No one likes to accept the fact that Rusland had better, bigger and more effective weaponry. Glad Gorbatsjov made us understand the coldwar race only has losers and therefor Russia won the coldwar, NOT Reaganomic-America.
@-Muhammad_Ali-
@-Muhammad_Ali- 16 жыл бұрын
no it's not an airplane
@ragemanchoo82
@ragemanchoo82 11 жыл бұрын
LOL
@JMCSD
@JMCSD 15 жыл бұрын
lol
@NCC1701zulu
@NCC1701zulu 12 жыл бұрын
@sukhoi235 its a piece of junk, thats why it didnt get produced.
@idcs5000
@idcs5000 16 жыл бұрын
America is responsible for many lives, than has been lost by pretence of "Fight for democracy in other countries". Iraq, for example. But i think it is off topic (for this publication)
@maycomlucass
@maycomlucass 12 жыл бұрын
que bang estranho kkkkkkkkk e feio
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