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post the weirdest military engineering you have ever seen.
pic related, the soviets made it, need I say more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
>>28066515
You think that's weird? You haven't even scratched the surface.
>>28066515
That's not weird that's terrifying
>>28066545
how the hell does that even fly
>>28066515
We haven't even begun to go down the rabbit hole, Alice.
>>28066515
You're not in Kansas anymore, Dorthy.
>>28066515
Everything you know is a lie.
>>28067955
>it's literally just a sexbird with gunz
>>28067962
That's not a real plane
>>28067917
I'm kind of wondering why someone photoshoped it without a radome.
>>28067897
quite well apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_%26_Voss_BV_141
>>28066515
>>28066644
Ekranoplan was a huge success.
Unfortunately, as I understand, when Stalin was assassinated and his successor (Malenkov?) took over, he cancelled most of Stalins projects.
>>28068030
They were pretending it had a MiG-type engine intake.
>>28068242
What's it really called? I don't want to keep using a fake image.
>>28068155
>Stalin assassinated
>Malenkov?
is this a new meme or are you retarded?
>>28067897
torque from the engine offsets the weird out of balance cockpit...
>>28068638
It's pretty widely accepted that Stalin was poisoned, but whatever. "After his death" we will say.
Malenkov was the Communist party leader for two years after Stalins death, before Khrushchev took over.
>>28068155
>>28068721
The Lun came around decades after Stalin though, it was an Andropov/Gorbachev-era project.
Fuck Malenkov btw
Not that weird, just stupid huge
![Aerojet_AJ26_in_the_Stennis_E-1_Test_Stand_-_cropped[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Vln63sv.jpg "Aerojet_AJ26_in_the_Stennis_E-1_Test_Stand_-_cropped[1].jpg")
NK-33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM
>>28066515
It was canceled only because the Soviet Union collapsed. If not for that, it would have entered production.
>>28067917
Okay, that looks like the bastard midget child of a MiG-21 and an SR-71. What the fuck is it?
>>28071563
that is a big helicopter
what we gonna do with them flawed 23mm AA barrels?
>>28070324
If you look at some of the stuff the Germans were building before WWII, you very much get the feeling that they either pulled the Blitzkrieg out of nowhere in 1939, or didn't expect it to work. They had a number of heavy siege weapons (like the Schwerer Gustav and the pictured Karl-Gerat mortar) designed and built to crack hard targets and fortifications, like the Maginot Line. Most of them saw service on the Eastern Front in the end, shelling Fortress Sebastopol and others.
>>28071684
That's interesting. They probably expected something like what happened in wwi - advancing followed by digging in.
I bet there are documents on it out there.
>>28071684
Blitzkrieg as in Poland and France wasn't a planned form of warfare, it "just happened" because the Germans constantly overran or outflanked the enemy and thus penetrated their territory way deeper than intended to
Look at how Rommel and his tanks performed in France, they pretty much outran their supply lines and that was the only thing they'd sometimes stop for.
When "Blitzkrieg" became a doctrine (Russia) you know how that fared - get a nice summer offensive going, get bogged down in impassable terrain in autumn, shit freezes in winter and then the reds go bonkers with their army that is accustomed to winter warfare.
>>28071611
It's fake. I was dooped. It's a heavily photoshopped version of this image.
>>28071626
2(2u)
on a more serious note, holy fuck that thing is big
my contribution, the Peacemakers. these things never cease to amaze me
