Holy crap... the ship from Starwars

[S V Choong 4]

Apparently it is a Russian craft. I wonder if the Russian designer was watching Starwars (when he wasn't suppose to) and came up with this one.... One ugly mofo.....!

 

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0844574/L/

 

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0788490/L/

[Andrew Yong 0]

I dont know what it this , the structure show that this UFO are also can use in marine!!!!!

[TW Teo 0]

More like Star Wars copied their design. Lots of Russian planes has cockpit windows that looked like that.

 

The designer is actually Italian, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini.

 

You can read more about the VVA-14 here.

[BC Tam 2]

C'mon guys - it's just, 'different' !! To me it looks like a 'penyu' !

Would be cool to actually see the thing fly - might be difficult now though, wings appear to have been scavanged

[Edwin P K 0]

That's one hella ugly looking monsta!

[Denny Yen 0]

The a/c pictured are those USSR designed surface skimmers. The one pictured below is Ekranoplan capable of 360mph, and is designed to carry short-range anti-ship missiles (6 tubes on top).

 

 

This is the turbo-prop lighter version.

[Radzi 2]

Those are Ekranoplan, or wing in ground effect vehicles.