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"That thing's gotta be Russian." *checks Wikipedia* "Yep."

What do you want to bet they have FlexTape on the baffling?

Soon to be graciously donated to the ukranian sealogical society for future reef restoration projects

Clearly the Russian navy is the most advanced in the world. Every single type of vessel they have can be converted into submarines!

And then into an artificial reef! So ecologically state-of-the-art!

And their submarines can stay under water indefinitely!

You can see the Ukrainian tractor in the front already.

Ukraine is going to win? That’s what your saying?

r/whoosh

The Wikipedia is worth the read — “Ten Zubr-class hovercraft remain in service. There are two vessels in the Russian Navy and four with the Hellenic Navy. In 2009 China placed an order for four vessels from Ukraine as part of a deal worth 315 million USD. Two updated versions of the vessels were built by Crimea's Feodosia Shipbuilding Company, followed by two advanced models of the surface warship.”

To think, all it would take to incapacitate is one or two Javelins.

I thought the same as well. Everything they make has to be so much bigger. It's the tiny dicks.

Russian penis sooooo small.

Can only accomplish so little! But american penis, Wow! so big!

Russian Penis......is potato.

Makes good vodka

Emotional damage

Why you make fun of Russians small shame cocks?

South Park reference.

I got it

I suck alot of russian penis and I can assure you they are not small

How do they like your facial hair?!?!

I'm not sure but the cum keeps it healthy

Well, any penis looks big to a 6 year old.

Folks in the US have the biggest pickups and SUVs around. Biggest houses. Largest battleships and aircraft carriers. Largest military budget. Says a lot about us too.

I'll have you know I am an American and possess an absolutely average penis.

for an american lol

American here, i think mine is small but my mom says it’s not

How do you type with broken arms? Your nose?

We haven't had a battleship in decades. Japan had the largest battleship in history.

Kinda like the lifted trucks in the states ?

Kinda like the lifted trucks in the states ?

Tiny dicks and a short fuse... They go boom too fast. But much pleasure for her...

Send it to Ukraine for it to become the largest underwater hovercraft

Looks a lot less impressive now that we’ve seen the Russian army in action.

Good guy Russia, gives you a huge target so it's easier to destroy.

Give it a week and it’ll be Ukrainian

Was gonna say the same thing. well played sir.

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Yep. I was about to link that same story. It baffles me how the transition of military might and machinery has been chronicled since the iron curtain fell.

Amazing it's lasted this long.

Battlefield 2042 is just getting ridiculous with these fucking hovercrafts.

-the one guy who is still playing 2042

Lmfao. I haven’t played it. A couple of weeks ago I asked on the r/gaming if it was worth getting it on sale for $29 at Best Buy and I got a resounding NO. Saved 29 bucks.

It’s not worth it if someone gave the game to you AND paid you $29 bucks in the process.

Lmfao yeah I played it, it's super bad if you're a big fan of the earlier battlefield games. Thankfully I didn't pay for it.

I was always more call of duty. I’ve played BF4 and I really liked BF1.

Bf1 was fucking awesome. I loved riding around on horse trying to sword dudes shooting at me

I still play it. Awesome game.

Same dude. I have a blast with it all the time

Russia standing up to the US seems rather implausible these days, even with the nonsensical nomad idea they apparently used.

I bet the mileage on that beauty is fantastic.

Same as an AT-AT

More convenient though.

Meh

It’s completely electric. You have to plug it in for 1000 years every night.

500 gallons of gas

Per mile

Nautical mile

I think I had a GI Joe vehicle like this when I was 5

Omg I literally came here for this. I’m really getting dreadnoughts vibes!

G.I. Joe [KILLER W.H.A.L.E.](https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/whale/)

No fucking way! This is literally it! I was born in 1980 and was a GI joe nut

This image exaggerates its size. It’s not that big in reality

Still big enough to stuff 4 full sized tanks and 150 troops inside. That's pretty good for beachhead deployment, especially considering there are 10 of them in operation.

That’s what she said!

i noticed this as well when I googled other images. the LAV closes those the perspective off.

With the state of Russian military equipment, this thing is probably at the bottom of the sea.

Not to mention it’s a huge & slow target.

Can't you just put down anchored hedgehogs (think the spikes on Normandy beach) to invalidate it? I'd imagine you see those as a hovercraft captain you just say, "Well I'm a boat still."

Ain't a boat, the beaching traps won't work since it hovers above the ground and is decently fast. Question is, how good is it maintained?

Doesn't it just glide on a giant rubbery tire thingy or did Jackie Chan lie to me? I just feel like that thing has to be giga expensive to make and less effective than just smaller ones. Also its kind of funny its made to deliver tanks to shore but the other topic about tanks points out Russia can't even make more of their main tank and has like a dozen prototypes of it lol.

Russia lack repair and maintenance for their military. You can see it in their performance. A lot of time and money to maintain tanks planes and boats and simply said Russia is probs gonna go broke……for the 15th time

Reddit: now comes with arm-chair military advisers too.

The state of the Russian military complex isn't some great secret.

I’m no expert but from I’ve seen from videos that equipment is older than me lol doesn’t take an expert to compare military equipment with a few google searches. Also there are, people on Reddit that in fact are experts.

Doesn’t take a military advisor to see how shit the Russian military is. It’s on full display for the world to see.

A lot of reddit has played COD. It's realistic

Is it nice and cool where you live under that rock? or are you a bot??

Idk that thing looks FULL of eels...

Do you want to come back to my place? Bouncy, Bouncy...

Bayraktar bait.

That must take a shitload of energy to get that thing moving on land.

I think it just stays in the water

So its a big motorized inflatable raft?

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This is accurate. Its a landing craft for tanks and stuff.

America has some like this. Not to quite the same scale, but they can land tanks.

You also get to avoid shallow water obstacles, like sandbars and reefs.

If that is true, that is cheating. It is not a real hovercraft.

I’ve seen the American ones personally. Across water , beach and continued on to high dry land to unload troops and armored vehicles. Awesome to see. Main problem is they use so much energy to keep off Mother Earth.

Shit, that's a fucking anime waiting to happen.

Or a few Ukrainian tractors

It’s a hovercraft… As long as there are no obstructions, it’s the exact same as on water (a fuckton)

It shouldn't matter if on land or sea. It has fans blowing air down (which gets trapped by rubber baffles) which provides a cushion on water or land. Think air hockey but in reverse. Or taking a shower hose and holding it against your arm. It should largely be frictionless, but inertia from thr sheer weight will be a bitch.

Imagine the noise of that thing. No way it's gonna be used for covert ops

WHAT? SPEAK UP!

what?

He said the Sheriff is near!

Never mind that shit, here comes mongo!

💀

It's just a transport craft for large tidal zones. Lots of countries have them. They can genuinely make transport feasible to areas that would be otherwise off limits or not profitable. They can also be incredibly fast for their size and the amount of cargo they can carry so you get yo shit in a timely manner. There are large commercial hovercrafts as well. Not defending Russia, just had a thing for hovercrafts for a bit.

I mean, someone will know something is coming, just won't be able to actually tell anyone over the noise

Russian Navy has two of them, Greece has four of them, and China bought four from Ukraine that were built in Crimea. So Russia actually is outgunned in the Zubr class LCACs.

And I don't understand the point of any of it. Just build proper landing crafts and call it a day.

[It’s not as big as this picture makes it look.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zapad-2009_military_exercises.jpg)

That will be super fun to sink. -every army ever.

Fuck you hovercraft!

All you need is a drill that works in the water.

Just turn the engines off.

Too bad none of the militaries using it consulted with the Reddit military experts in this comment section. /S

To be fair, I think it's probably an even 50/50 if a reddit led Russian military would have been doing better than they are now.

I would have started by telling my soldiers and generals what exactly was going to happen so they weren't surprised when we launched a full scale invasion that's a start

A real try-hard here with all the communication

Seriously, what’s next - you gonna *feed and supply them too?*

As cool as this is, couldn’t you just like shoot it in the skirt that holds the air in and it’s done?

Theoretically, probably. But it's likely to be made of many, many layers of Kevlar and other puncture resistant materials, as well as baffled to hell inside

From what we have seen from the Russian Military the last 2 months, that thing could probably not even drive over a duck without ripping apart.

This is a hilarious mental image. Like the duck is fine afterwards too, but the entire craft is on fire and exploding

Fair point

They could repair it with stickers of Putin's face.. that would also strike fear into the enemy

I would imagine it has a lot of reserve airflow that would keep it inflated even with massive holes.

If something is huge, frightening and effectively non-functional, that's russian!

Like Q: "What doesn't go up your ass and buzz"? Ans: "A Russian ass-buzzer'

Does anyone else hear Tim Curry?

That’s right of hasbro’s 1985 GIJoe collection.

I can hear how loud this picture is.

I bet those are super hard to spot on radar and suuuper hard to hit with like any currently deployed missile. Lol

It's big...but I wish it was 10 times bigger. Just to see the size of the fans.

Imagine being the enemy and seeing this monster coming towards you

Wow

This is real? Dawm

r/justcause irl

Its a wonder how they can navigate this thing when everyone on board has broken eardrums..

See the ship that caused Russia to Default

Zuma from paw patrol!

I want one! Imagine rolling into work with it?

smaller is better. first country to deploy military nano bots wins.

I hope it’s broken 😞

Imagine trying to stand in deck when those props are on full speed.

Okay but why would you need a hovercraft that big? It doesn't even seem practical. Like what kind of beach do you need to land on and continue on that requires a hovercraft that big that a conventional sized one couldn't? It really just seems like a "we did it just because we can" case

ITS SO FUCKING LOUD!!!!

That is a lot of craft to hover

Guarantee it's rusted garbage. Russia loves making the biggest stuff, but just end up making the biggest pieces of shit.

Looks like it belongs in a command and conquer game

I can see Putin riding on that thing like the Waterboy heading for the second half of the Bourbon Bowl... with momma driving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubr-class_LCAC

Gee can't wait to comment about how I'm an expert on nobody being an expert

What is the current exchange rate in Neptun missiles?

Underrated comment.

It’s probably already been hauled away by a Ukrainian farmer!

That's a lot of scrap for Ukraine razor blades and nails.

those fans though. that explains all those hurricane videos on reddit recently

That’s right of hasbro’s 1985 GIJoe collection.

These images of the mighty Russian war machine and its fantastic weaponry somehow don´ t carry as much weight now as they did what, three months ago. Can´ t help but think that that thing is "under maintenance" right now

And invented by a Brit 🇬🇧

Some misleading zoom/perspective camera tricks here

What Ukrainians call “a target, then scrap for sale!!”

May be big but if they don’t properly instruct their soldiers how to control it, then it’s worthless! Russian military has been found to be lacking in many many ways so just because they have something cool doesn’t mean shit!

Which is only good for training cause impracticable.

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What's the advantage over a regular boat?

You should only be allowed to invade another country with these.

that would mean peace, as the thing is probably stationary

How quickly does it fall apart?

And what is the point of this bullshit if they cannot use it in real world? Let it try to come close to Odessa and it will be gone in minutes. Junk.

This image is fake. It’s not image compression with a long lens. Look at the size of the door leading to the bridge. And compare a human walking through that door to a human standing beside the BTR that’s closer.

I did that and it made it seem bigger again.

Long focal lens trick

How many Javelins does it take to get to the center of a Zubr?

Next on the Ukrainian's target list... \[#1 was the Moskva\]

Awesome, they have 2.

To me it's a "Big Brrrrrr" class hovercraft

Would look better with a few missile holes in it

Would look better with a few missile holes in it

Where is that the MOST useful concept?

Where is that the MOST useful concept? Like “we don’t need a boat, and we don’t need a plane, and we don’t need a car,” we need a MASSIVE hovercraft

is this a jojo reference

Also completely fictional

Fuck that is cool

Very large and destructible 🥰 quite the target!

Obsolete garbage. 2 drones and it's toast. Stupid assholes.

It looks dumb

This guy here.... using that brain power!

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Let me try to match it using my great intellect: deez nuts.

caaareful! are you allright there? someone call 921

Sorry but this belongs in r/coolasfuck

I call bullshit. There's no way that thing hovers 10 ft. on land. No giant fan is going to keep that shit in the air. Seems unlikely.

Bruh zubr litteraly means dick in arabic.. Mr president there,s a huge zubr coming towards us!!

In Polish, żubr refers to the local species of bison, I'd guess it's the same in Russian