View Full Version : Beach Invasion in Russia.
Fareastdriver
23rd Aug 2013, 17:42
Showing the public how their roubles are spent.
Video: Amphibious landing craft docks at crowded beach in Russia - YouTube
The word going around is that they hit the wrong beach.
Tashengurt
23rd Aug 2013, 18:02
And all the sunbathers didn't get them wondering?!!:eek:
smujsmith
23rd Aug 2013, 18:36
Before you young gentlemen get carried away. ISTR a certain Nav Station commander putting his Albert down at the wrong airport in Turkey, some years ago. Lets try to restrain the urine extraction, its hardly a first, and I'm damn sure wont be the last.
Smudge:ok:
dead_pan
23rd Aug 2013, 18:39
Crikey, thats one big beastie. Wouldn't fancy that bearing down on me when I was catching some rays in me speedos, 99 in hand.
The crew presumably are now enjoying a well-earned bit of R+R at a salt mine in Siberia.
Tashengurt
23rd Aug 2013, 18:41
Fair enough Smudge but was the runway covered in semi naked families?!
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smujsmith
23rd Aug 2013, 18:58
Trashengurt,
I honestly don't know, my point being anyone can "cock up", everything I have ever read about Russian (dare I suggest soviet) style military operations suggests a total determination to follow orders. If the orders are wrong ? Looks like no casualties were experienced in either case thankfully. That's one big hover jobby.
Smudge
Lonewolf_50
23rd Aug 2013, 19:04
What an awesome piece of gear!
I want one.
Lima Juliet
23rd Aug 2013, 19:40
Lonewolf
Here is the latest hovercraft in the US used on Mythbusters :ok:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/gallery/20-06/ff_hovercraft_f.jpg
The patio chair comes in different colours...:E
smujsmith
23rd Aug 2013, 20:02
That would be a perfect present from us all to Beagle, to get him to his wonderful Webber. Just a thought !!!
Smudge
Agaricus bisporus
23rd Aug 2013, 20:03
Much more likely the public had invaded a nice beach the military don't usually use on a Sunday. I don't see clouds of sand and all the debris you'd get if you ran that ashore on a crowded beach. I bet there's a nice landing ramp out of sight of the camera that they nosed onto.
Quite a toy, and to think we invented them and pretty much gave them up.
Wensleydale
23rd Aug 2013, 20:55
It's maybe the Russian version of "Top Gear" with an experimental Hovervan?