Sovietski!
Soviet artifacts have the strangest quality of seeming to be ancient relics from a distant future. To me the jaw-dropping thing here (in Google’s occasionally off Russian translation) isn’t even the gargantuanism (James Cameron with an unlimited budget and actual military?) but how different the Lun battlestar ekranoplan—and the thinking and design sensibility behind it—is from anything in the West outside of science fiction.
Lest one think only in Soviet Russia, according to the photographer the U.S. Air Force and NASA recently toured it.
Because pirates and the terrorists would never see this coming.
via xplanes: BoingBoing: Philip J. Hollenback
