Video: WIG craft are being tested in Russia again
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
In Petrozavodsk, tests of the "Orion 20" ekranoplan resumed. This amphibian can move on ice and water, as well as hover above the surface.
These days, an unusual aircraft could be seen in the sky over Lake Onega. In Petrozavodsk, tests of the "Orion 20" ekranoplan resumed. This amphibian can move on ice and water, as well as hover above the surface using a screen effect.
Work on the vehicle began five years ago, but trials were suspended in the summer of 2015 after a serious accident. And now the designers have created a new sample, and the tests continued. This was told in the story of the TV channel "Russia-1"
The new model has become larger, and the tail section has been made lighter so that the car does not "stand up". This caused the crash of the previous prototype.
Flying amphibians - ekranoplanes began to be created in the USSR back in the 50s. A high-speed vehicle, an apparatus flying within the range of an aerodynamic screen, that is, at a relatively low (up to several meters) height from the surface of water, earth, snow or ice. With equal mass and speed, the wing area of an ekranoplan is much less than that of an airplane.
Orion develops a speed of up to 180 kilometers per hour, takes a ton of cargo or 12 passengers. Iran has become interested in the car, and a contract has already been signed for their supply to Tehran, according to the TV channel's report.
The most famous Soviet ekranoplan of the project 903 "Lun". He carried 6 Mosquito anti-ship missiles.
The main target of the missile carrier is aircraft carriers. The Lun ekranoplan, due to its high speed and stealth for radars, can fly at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour to aircraft carriers at a distance of accurate missile launch. The first in the series "Lun" remained the only one, despite the successfully passed tests and its inclusion in the fleet. "Lun" decommissioned and mothballed.
And the landing ekranoplan "Eaglet" was even released by an experimental batch of 5 units and entered service with the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR Navy.
"Orlyonok" is intended for the transfer of amphibious assault forces at a distance of up to 1500 km, it takes off at wave heights of up to 2 meters and develops a speed of 400-500 km / h. Loading and unloading of people and equipment is carried out through the bow that reclines to the right. The device is capable of taking on board up to 200 marines with full weapons or two armored vehicles (tank, armored personnel carrier, infantry fighting vehicle).
The ekranollet is armed with a turret-mounted machine gun mount "UTES-M" (two NSVT machine guns of 12.7 mm caliber). The crew of the landing craft consists of 9 people.
All "Eaglets" became part of the naval aviation, on their base was formed the 11th separate air group, directly subordinate to the General Staff of Naval Aviation.
The series of ekranoplanes S-21, S-25 and S-26 was initial: the plans for the development of the USSR Navy provided for the construction of 120 "Orlyats".
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