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To: sukhoi-30mki

Is that just a trick of the lighting on the photo, or does that thing really have a blunt bow like an old infantry landing craft?

}:-)4


2 posted on 11/02/2010 10:00:16 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: Moose4
Is that just a trick of the lighting on the photo, or does that thing really have a blunt bow like an old infantry landing craft?

It is a sea effect ship. Kind of like a hovercraft, but with rigid sides. The front and rear are flexible rubber skirts..
3 posted on 11/02/2010 10:02:11 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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This replaces their old slow patrol boat


6 posted on 11/02/2010 10:32:45 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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