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The Zubr class, Soviet designation Project 1232.2, (NATO reporting name "Pomornik") is a class of Soviet-designed air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC). The name "Zubr" is Russian for the European bison. [5] This class of military hovercraft is, as of 2023 the world's largest hovercraft, [6] with a standard full load displacement of 555 tons.
Hovercraft. Bora-class guided missile hovercraft; Zubr-class LCAC; Landing ship. Alligator-class landing ship; Ropucha-class landing ship; Polnocny-class landing ship; Ivan Gren-class landing ship; Dyugon-class landing craft
The Zubr was rocket-propelled and armed with a 250 kilogram warhead. It was carried by early-model Sovremenny -class destroyers and Tarantul -class corvettes . The submarine-launched version of this missile was also designated as an SS-N-22 Sunburn by NATO but was known to the Soviets as the P-100 Oniks .
A USN LCAC at Camp Pendleton. An air-cushioned landing craft, also called an LCAC (landing craft, air cushioned), is a modern variation on the amphibious landing boat.The majority of these craft are small- to mid-sized multi-purpose hovercraft, also known as "over the beach" ("OTB") craft.
Extremely large hovercraft such as the Zubr-class LCAC used by both the Russian Navy and the PLAN could also technically cover some aspect of landship design by factor of it being also capable of traversing overland as a partial-terrestrial vehicle. At over 50 meters long with a max tonnage weight of 555 tons, it is the closest one could get to ...
Zubr may refer to: Żubr or Zubr, the name in several Slavic languages for the wisent or European bison (Bison bonasus) Zubr (political organization), a civic youth organization in Belarus; Zubr, a novel by Daniil Granin; TOZ-55 "Zubr", a Soviet hunting rifle; Zubr-class LCAC, a Russian hovercraft; Żubr (beer), a Polish brand of beer
Russian firms were able to obtain spare parts for 25-year-old ASML chipmaking machines in 2022 to 2023 on secondary markets despite European Union sanctions, Dutch newspaper Trouw reported on ...
The first successful experiments with hovercraft in the USSR date back to the mid-1930s and are tightly connected with the name of talented engineer and designer Vladimir Levkov, who substantiated the possibility of hovercraft as far back as in his 1925 treatise The vortex theory of the rotor (Russian: Вихревая теория ротора ...