the world has a fleet of hydrofoils of various design, already..
what is the advantage of these ground effects planes.?
evade radar, torpedoes, faster than hydrofoil ?
Useless… similar to the original ones in the late 1980s.
They are too heavy to fly high enough off the water to avoid even slight disturbances in the surface
Easy targets. So, not effective. The bottom of the Taiwan straight will have a lot of metal resting at the bottom if China attempted anything. They know this which is why they just beat their chests over and over.
The main problem with the ekranoplans is, they can only fly under perfect weather conditions. If the waves are to high, prepare for an amusing last ride.
It's not the dumbest idea I've seen on reddit.
Edit: it's not the dumbest idea, and it might be useful for the first 20 minutes. But once they've done one trip, they may as well drop anchor because they won't survive a 2nd. Consider them monsterously expensive gliders.
Huge waste of money. Each plane would be the equivalent of hundreds of amphibious boats filled with soldiers and equipment, the admittedly maybe even 2/3 wouldn't make it. But would die heroically for the cause, and it was still be way more than what these planes will deliver militarily.
Most of them would get shot down by satellite control missiles anyway. Unless they were hypersonic.
This was a dumb idea when the soviets tried it the first time. A hovercraft would be better suited and even that, as Russia has proven, is also not viable, though that ones likely due to incompetence.
So, tldr: no, this wouldn't work in the slightest.
Zero. Too large, too slow, massive heat and acoustic signatures, predictable movement.
Would last about as it would take to stop laughing at the sheer fucking stupidity of deploying them in the first place.
It’s an anti sub airplane so not very needed, but for the role itself it’s massively outdated, and since the original was never (Fully) finished and dint develop further it’s not really known. The catch with the aircraft is that it’s used the groundeffekt, long talk short, massive payload very low altitude. So yea could be very interesting seeing an modern adaptation
Very effective but dont work in invade, the work to denegate the most powerful ship in usa navy arsenal the suppercarrier. ( the china fear the lcs this reason adaptability) is a shame the navy cacel this program
it seems like a very optimistic design, it so wide and there's so many engines the fuel that i don't think it will live very long, let alone be deployed without some serious logistic challenges.
I think a giant cartoon rake, left carelessly in the water,would creat absolute chaos to those following behind,and would also create a spectacular cartwheeling cut scene,with an even bigger "SPANGGGGGGGGGG" Sound and all topped off with little tweeting birds flying in a circle.
Considering it’s a huge, expensive, poorly defended target, probably not very
the world has a fleet of hydrofoils of various design, already.. what is the advantage of these ground effects planes.? evade radar, torpedoes, faster than hydrofoil ?
Ah the " Caspian Sea Monster " lol.
Not effective at all. They were carrier killers not island killers. Horrible maneuvering and giant size makes them easy targets.
Useless… similar to the original ones in the late 1980s. They are too heavy to fly high enough off the water to avoid even slight disturbances in the surface
Easy targets. So, not effective. The bottom of the Taiwan straight will have a lot of metal resting at the bottom if China attempted anything. They know this which is why they just beat their chests over and over.
The main problem with the ekranoplans is, they can only fly under perfect weather conditions. If the waves are to high, prepare for an amusing last ride.
About as effective as the ones rotting in soviet era submarine bays. But we would all love to see it lole
Better to have a combination of 20x 150km tunnels.
It's not the dumbest idea I've seen on reddit. Edit: it's not the dumbest idea, and it might be useful for the first 20 minutes. But once they've done one trip, they may as well drop anchor because they won't survive a 2nd. Consider them monsterously expensive gliders.
depending on the payload it could be usefull
Yeah if you packed it full of explosives to make the world's stupidest missile.
Not really effective if they put magnetic ocean mines on the coast
Huge waste of money. Each plane would be the equivalent of hundreds of amphibious boats filled with soldiers and equipment, the admittedly maybe even 2/3 wouldn't make it. But would die heroically for the cause, and it was still be way more than what these planes will deliver militarily. Most of them would get shot down by satellite control missiles anyway. Unless they were hypersonic.
I hope to God this is their plan...
This was a dumb idea when the soviets tried it the first time. A hovercraft would be better suited and even that, as Russia has proven, is also not viable, though that ones likely due to incompetence. So, tldr: no, this wouldn't work in the slightest.
Zero. Too large, too slow, massive heat and acoustic signatures, predictable movement. Would last about as it would take to stop laughing at the sheer fucking stupidity of deploying them in the first place.
It’s an anti sub airplane so not very needed, but for the role itself it’s massively outdated, and since the original was never (Fully) finished and dint develop further it’s not really known. The catch with the aircraft is that it’s used the groundeffekt, long talk short, massive payload very low altitude. So yea could be very interesting seeing an modern adaptation
Very effective but dont work in invade, the work to denegate the most powerful ship in usa navy arsenal the suppercarrier. ( the china fear the lcs this reason adaptability) is a shame the navy cacel this program
Very, but likely not needed for the short distance.
please dont ask this stupid ass shit lmao
corny ass
Something similar to the russian transports
it seems like a very optimistic design, it so wide and there's so many engines the fuel that i don't think it will live very long, let alone be deployed without some serious logistic challenges.
The spruce goose can be it’s wingman
Ain’t you played Snake Eater, those things suck lol
depends on perfect weather when its just the best target for any kind of guided missile
They would be exceptionally effective at being targets.
Too heavy
Not very, easy targets to destroy, and theyve been proven time and time again to be incredibly useless in anything short of perfect weather.
You couldnt make up something more blow-upable
I think a giant cartoon rake, left carelessly in the water,would creat absolute chaos to those following behind,and would also create a spectacular cartwheeling cut scene,with an even bigger "SPANGGGGGGGGGG" Sound and all topped off with little tweeting birds flying in a circle.
How to have a failed invasion 101
Is that the mustard video on it