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Today, many already know about how the Soviet Union tried to create special WIG aircraft carriers to fight if war with the NATO bloc still be started. However, few people know that at sunset the USSR built the only winged designers have tried to put on a peaceful track.
The Soviet Union had deployed many interesting, large-scale and ambitious projects. Among them stands out not 903 project "Lun", whose task was to create a military WIG for enemy surface targets. I thought "Lun" in the first place, like a thunderstorm carriers. Total power was calculated to build 8 of fighting machines that can rapidly slide on the surface of the water. Technically, the project was a mixture of 903 ships and planes. Despite all the goals and loudly plans to build in the Soviet Union were able to only a single military WIG.
When it became clear that the 8 ekranoplans in the navy of the USSR does not happen, the project "Lun" decided to reconsider, making the air-sea ship in something special and more - exclusively civil. Under the new project, WIG was supposed to be a mobile hospital. Such a machine could be very useful, especially for rapid response to emergencies.
The vessel was to be 150 beds, and in a critical situation, "rescuer" was able to take on board up to a thousand people. WIG had to work on the updated engines NK-87 - four on each wing. The machine would be dispersed up to 500 km / h. Cruising would be 2,000 km. The crew has reached 10 people. The readiness of the project was 75%. Unfortunately, the implementation of the initiative came in the last years of the Soviet Union. As a result, the unique winged civilian perished in the storms of history as well as the country in which it was created.
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