Abandoned Russian Space Shuttles

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Jun 11, 15 3:49 pm

I just found this link on another site.....
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

Amazing pictures.

jerry · Post by **jerry** » Thu Jun 11, 15 5:18 pm

Jim wrote:I just found this link on another site.....
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

Amazing pictures.

Great find, thanks for sharing

I don't think anyone really ever knows what the Russians do or don't have....
Jerry II

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Jun 11, 15 5:45 pm

All very James Bond. I love Russian military and space stuff, it all looks so sinister....

Still think the Ekranoplans take some beating.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Thu Jun 11, 15 8:33 pm

Blue wrote:All very James Bond. I love Russian military and space stuff, it all looks so sinister....

Still think the Ekranoplans take some beating.

I agree totally
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ScottyDave · Post by **ScottyDave** » Thu Jun 11, 15 9:04 pm

Fantastic find, cheers for sharing

Have to agree are Ekranoplans Awesome!!!

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Fri Jun 12, 15 6:28 am

Wow. Now that is something else.

I have a similar link for the caspian sea monster at work. I'll post it up later. how that get access to this stuff without getting shot is the real amazing part !!

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Fri Jun 12, 15 7:45 am

Great post

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Fri Jun 12, 15 9:10 am

Check out THIS bad boy. (its a re-post, but SO good).
They actually climb the thing !

http://englishrussia.com/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/

mad machs · Post by **mad machs** » Fri Jun 12, 15 9:18 am

Managed to nab some Buran memorabilia a while back

guy whitwam · Post by **guy whitwam** » Fri Jun 12, 15 9:28 am

Now that's a post !!!!!
So amazed that such a project can just be terminated like that it just looks like everybody went to lunch and never came back........very eerie, but very interesting

GUY

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Jun 12, 15 10:51 am

I think with the big changes in Russia over the last few years, the money just ran out overnight. Now that Putin has started sabre rattling again, no doubt other secret projects will be underway....

db · Post by db » Fri Jun 12, 15 11:15 am

Imagine what they could achieve if they got their Bananarama! together!

Prothed · Post by **Prothed** » Fri Jun 12, 15 11:45 am

We went to the cosmonaut museum in Moscow recently and I never knew there had been a Russian shuttle... It looks just like a clone of the US one but apparently was designed independently, the notice said.
The money ran out also for the giant floating launch pad - very James Bond - now mothballed somewhere.
There is something that looks like an Ekranoplan in the middle of Moscow. Apparently its now an exhibit. We didn't have time to get to it unfortunately.

Post by **MattH** » Fri Jun 19, 15 9:21 am

Love those Ekranoplans. That photo looks like the Orlyonok which is the smaller one.
Revell made a model kit of it, which I have in my stash.

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