Giant Russian Zubr-class LCAC Hovercraft in Action

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The Soviet Zubr-class LCAC or air-cushioned landing craft is the world’s largest hovercraft ever produced.
Displacing over 555 tons and measuring more than 57 meters, the Zubr or Pormornik is the ultimate amphibious vehicle used for disembarking and embarking troops, supplies, and vehicles.
Thanks to its squared shape and unique pontoon structure, the Zubr can carry 500 heavily armed Russian marines, 10 armored vehicles, or three battle tanks to swiftly deliver them to the battlefield.
Developed in the 1980s by the Soviet Navy, the amphibious vehicle has been constantly modified to keep it updated with modern technologies. Today, less than a dozen such vessels have been produced, but the Russian Navy has ambitious plans to develop more and deploy them all the way to the Pacific and Eastern Europe.
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@thokim84 Год назад

I like how you used mostly b footage of American LCACs.

@stillsalty947 Год назад

Can't imagine the soviets/russians relesed a lot of footage of millitary equiptment...

@ProstyRobbs Год назад

Just going to say, why is there a hmmwv on a Russian landing craft 🤔

@duiwel Год назад

Reasonably sure those are Greek Zubr's. Greece has more of them then russia has, Ukraine has sold and scrapped more than Russia has, China has more than Russia have - this video is kinda a joke.

@haimai296 Год назад

russia lcac’s big n good , but usa lcac’s is outstanding performance compared to russia lcac’s , cause they can be any where , any place more useful , ..

@lordisback1947 Год назад

@@ProstyRobbs because Greece has hmmvs

@markbothum4338 Год назад

Uh...didn't some of that footage have vessels with "US NAVY" printed on the side? Damned clever of those Soviets. Much better than stupid old camouflage.

@andrewdoesyt7787 Год назад

And it’s also a war crime isn’t it? Edit: yep, it’s a war crime.

@kennethhoppe2259 Год назад

@AndrewdoesVT. Don't the Country have to Declare War?

@rainmetal Год назад

The US Navy also have a few of these....I've seen them first hand

@andrewdoesyt7787 Год назад

@@kennethhoppe2259 yes… what else is military equipment for?

@mgmcd1 Год назад

There is a lot of B roll in this videos. It’s hard to fill them all with the most accurate items. 🤓

@cynic5581 Год назад

That tilt shift image used in the thumbnail looks incredible to me. It’s like a Star Wars star destroyer or something….

@thedownunderverse Год назад

Exactly what I thought

@theworldaccordingto4555 Год назад

Yeah, it certainly catches your attention. Never seen anything else like it. (other than in something like Star Wars, Sci-Fi movies). Noisy as hell I would image.

@MarineCorpzor1 Год назад

I love how it showed a Navy LCAC in the video.

@bigbadboo659 Год назад

I noticed that too bro

@duiwel Год назад

Was that a US LCAC or was it just a Greek Zubr with NATO hardware on it? I wasn't entirely sure.

@zyoninkiro Год назад

@@duiwel There was both footage of US LCACs and Greek Zubrs. How to tell the difference? American LCACs are open top and have only two large fans as well as the control cab off to one side. Zubrs are enclosed and have three huge fans. So if you see NATO equipment coming off/out of an enclosed LCAC then it's likely a Greek Zubr.

@gdotts3468 Год назад

At the risk of sounding critical I didn't know the Russians had had us military uniforms and Humvees

@paulstaf Год назад

There were a lot of clips in this video that didn't relate to the thing he was talking about.

@maska-1543 Год назад

Nobody should take this channel too seriously imo it's full of inaccuracies, unrelated b-roll, and poorly proofread scripts. That being said there is a lot of cool stuff and decent production value so still worth watching as long as you take everything with a big grain of salt.

@99PMoon Год назад

I think the poster does this on purpose to generate comments.

@bobman36 Год назад

@@maska-1543 you watch infographics show?

@maska-1543 Год назад

@@bobman36 Yeah on occasion. Pretty good stuff from what I've seen.

@odisseaskipriotis Год назад

Greece has 3 of these, and I have seen them in action. Trully impressive, huge size, very loud -audible from 6 miles at least-, very big water cloud behind them and very fast! They landed troops and vehicles on a beach very quick. Easy target? Maybe if unescorted!

@danielweston9188 Год назад

easy target from above or below . . . They have little ability to take a hit of anything.

@pat36a Год назад

That's the big draw back , not very stealthy, both auditable and visual.

@brsrc759 Год назад

....as I sneak up in snorkel gear with a dive knife

@ekalyvio Год назад

4. Not 3.

@brettmorton7365 Год назад

I do love hovercraft.. I remember there was one near home in a town with a lake that would take tourists out over the lake and nearby flat lands. So versatile!

@alanmalcheski8882 Год назад

You write good. Are you English?

@bryanmchugh1307 Год назад

They look like easy targets for Neptune and Harpoon missiles. Impressive boats though.

@im_qwesi1194 Год назад

So are the US aircraft carriers

@sleepingbagsforeyes396 Год назад

@@im_qwesi1194 Do I need to explain why you are wrong?

@jadennguyen1155 Год назад

@@im_qwesi1194 that's why us carriers operate in battlegroups lol, same can't be said about the russian navy

@kdeuler Год назад

My thought exactly.

@wilfriedklaebe Год назад

@@jadennguyen1155 Russian navy converts to sub battle groups *kchchch*

@graeme0 Год назад

Not enough B roll??? Either that, or the US Navy is using them too!!

@davidellis1355 Год назад

Did wonder if Russia had Humvees in its military

@AJNpa80 Год назад

Good thing it's equipped with a magnetic compass. Without it you never know, might invade a neighbor while off one exercise.

@IlusysSystems Год назад

@MikeDeeee420 Год назад

nice

@Mrgunsngear Год назад

Thanks

@robertpatrick3350 Год назад

For many years you could get a commercial ferry service to the UK from Calais, it was. Almost the same length as the Russian one, on the service there was one French craft and the remainder were British. It was a fantastic service …. As long as the sea conditions were ok….. passing slow moving ships was lots of fun in the early 1970’s

@danielmartin7838 Год назад

An awesome engineering feat, no matter the shortcomings. Perfect for tourists

@V43xV1CT15 Год назад

It’s pretty sweet not going to lie

@B.D.E. Год назад

Lmao as if Russia will ever get any more tourists again. Other than local and Chinese tourists (and we all know what they are like).

@hapidjus2520 Год назад

I'd prefer to see it as an underwater tourist attraction

@danielmartin7838 Год назад

@@hapidjus2520 why is that?

@snapdragon6601 Год назад

@@danielmartin7838 🤔 Umm, it'd be perfect for making an artificial reef which would help the environment?? 🤷 It could be home for marine life while protecting any endangered Black Sea fish species. Ukraine will also enjoy a boost in tourism thanks to it becoming a destination for scuba divers. 😉 ⛵🌊 🤿📷 🐠🐟

@johntaylor-lo8qx Год назад

This is good for rescue missions. But for an assault vehicle it would only work well against a weak country. Still a very cool peice of engineering. I think it's just too big of a target that won't hold enough fuel to make it back from a combat mission against a world power. With tomahawk misses, javelins, etc, I don't think it could stand up. Gr8 video. This thing is massive!!!

@legbreaker2762 Год назад

They're not supposed to operate in isolation - there's a whole fleet behind and beside them.

@einar8019 Год назад

@@legbreaker2762 which would not be able to close to a prepared enemy without getting destroyed by many anti ship missiles

@legbreaker2762 Год назад

@@einar8019 you do realise many of those vessels are there specifically for the purpose of countering those anti ship missiles?

@einar8019 Год назад

@@legbreaker2762 look how much that helped the moscow

@potatosinnato1767 Год назад

They could still be used against a modern power, just not in a contested beach landing. The beach SHOULD be already secured and the vessel should be supported by an allied fleet

@danielniffenegger7698 Год назад

“Largest ever produced” tends to be expensive, complicated to make and maintain and tends be a huge target

@gordtron Год назад

i wouldn't be surprised if these started popping up in different places.

@wokewokerman5280 Год назад

...to easy to destroy without a coordinated/combined military - Russia is broke so these will fall out of maintenance fast and be junk piles....

@clc2328 Год назад

You have to treat these videos like an audio only podcast when it comes to images

@dogetothemoon223 Год назад

This hovercraft was featured in the movie Edge of Tomorrow.

@sharingtherealworld Год назад

Very cool!

@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 Год назад

2:33 the DUKW is still running on the east coast of the US to do land and water tours of coastal cities. The duck boat tours travel up the Charles River of Boston, and drive around the city. They're pretty cool. (I know not fully related, but kinda cool.)

@georgedavidson957 Год назад

knew an ex-REME ??? ( cant remember the rank) years ago who said the DUKWs were floating sieves and the maint on them was horrendous. he still loved them just because of what they were.

@Wolverines77 Год назад

Seattle has them as well...

@MikeDeeee420 Год назад

While my parents brought me and my brother to live in boston we went on the duck boat tours. Once it was mentioned in the video first thought was driving into the canal thinking this better float cause its cold af out lol

@amacca2085 Год назад

Liverpool docks had a DUK it sank but apparently it is back

@boermed Год назад

it would make a great artificial reef . like their best ship has become

@kevinfreeman3098 Год назад

That thumbnail makes it look like an Imperial Star Cruiser beached itself... Maybe it's just me🤷

@CharliMorganMusic Год назад

So cool!

@blackbilly1965 Год назад

I like your stuff dude, but so often you just leave us hanging for more

@adamfrazer5150 Год назад

🤔....coming from somewhere deep inside my head, I can hear a song....😎 C & C Thang 🎶 Really amazing machine, appreciate yet another unique look at another feat of engineering 👍

@allgood6760 Год назад

Thanks👍

@Av-vd3wk Год назад

Can pronounce LCAC as “El-kak”

@yoboikamil525 Год назад

this big boi awakens some things in me

@marinostsalis314 Год назад

Everybody talk about size will be a problem. If so aircraft carriers would not exist. This naval vehicles are used in case you can't use ports or have shallow waters and in Greece its great to move troops. We have a labyrinth of small islands where other big ships can't have easy access to deploy other vehicles.

@icollectstories5702 Год назад

They are large, expensive, and seem to have large vulnerable areas like ducted fans and fabric(?) cushions. I'd expect them to be used, at most, once. If that's so, perhaps a fleet of smaller, cheaper, throw-away transports make more sense. Size is a disadvantage here -- imagine how long it needs to sit like a target while being unloaded. OTOH, think of the kind of runabout you could build on top of this platform! Just the accessory your mega-yacht lacks!

@tylerdurden4006 Год назад

Almost the exact same as americas, whats you point?

@Elthenar Год назад

@@tylerdurden4006 Yup. The advantage to these big air cushioned landers is that they can rapidly put heavy equipment on the beach in a hurry. A smaller vessel may not be able to carry a main battle tank, this thing can carry three, or a shitload of mechanized infantry. Does it have drawbacks? Sure. Does it have strengths, also sure.

@giancarloga8850 Год назад

@@tylerdurden4006 the point is that this hovercraft is an heavy military transport, and the american tanks carried by their hovecraft don't start to explode when they see a javelin

@bigstyx Год назад

@@tylerdurden4006 obviously you haven’t served in the US military so I understand your knowledge is limited. Maybe a little research might help

@bobman36 Год назад

The cushion is not needed to hover? It just stabilizes it, it’s not like a balloon it can take shots.

@christianbushey6298 9 месяцев назад

Its a brilliant machine. I think the Russian lcac is better then Americas. It seems more stable then ours.

@foobar201 Год назад

People keep commenting how vulnerable and how juicy a target this is, but so is every troop carrier. At the distance anti ship missiles are fired, the noise doesn't matter, only the radar signature really. The high speed of this thing is a big advantage because it is simply not in the danger zone for so long. Landing on a contested beach is pretty much out of the question these days.

@robertkrump2015 Год назад

Great work keep it up

@L_Train Год назад

When looking at the thumbnail I thought the hovercraft was the thing in the foreground when the beast appeared to me from the background and blew my mind.

@suspicionofdeceit Год назад

It came out of nowhere like an evil aberration rearing it’s ugly spirit.

@yourdiytechlife Год назад

Looks like a nice big juicy target.

@angelovalavanis2314 9 месяцев назад

This craft is perfect for the numerous islands that are in close proximity in the Aegean Sea.

@SONManiac Год назад

Cool! Now do the Tsar-Tank! :D

@nightdweller2902 Год назад

Russia: "We have big hovercraft. It can carry lots of men and cargo. Behold our power." NATO: "That's a nice craft you got there. You ever heard that old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket?" Russia: "No." NATO: "Shame."

@chaotixthefox Год назад

The US has its own version if these, which were shown in the video.

@salomoon Год назад

Read the title incorrectly as, ‘Giant Russian Hovercraft in Acton’ and shat myself for a sec. ‘ooh it’s fuckin kicking off, lads’

@bobdinwiddy Год назад

@00:50 - NICE WORK !

@WvlfDarkfire Год назад

Most impressive...

@joetaylor486 Год назад

I think it is an enormous and highly vulnerable, High value, High signature target.

@bobman36 Год назад

It’s not an aircraft carrier, it’s an assault craft it operates when and where nothing can take it out

@mustangrt8866 Год назад

they have antiaircraft missiles

@pedroperezpadilla3282 Год назад

I like how you showed the marine corps new toy the ACV At 2:18

@santamulligan676 Год назад

Sir Christopher Cockerell inventor of the hovercraft was British they used to cross the channel,Canadian Coastguard have big fine examples

@SuperpowerBroadcasting Год назад

I didn't realize Greece used these

@nickh.6461 Год назад

What a monster!

@1forcefed Год назад

I like your channel, but some of your video and pictures don't correlate with your description.

@samuelwong4152 Год назад

Perfect for tourists and rescue missions, NOT war. It will be a sitting duck slow target for today’s missiles.

@User-iq4rw Год назад

Great targets

@jbreefer148 Год назад

Please make a video about the Bora guided missile hovercraft surface effect ship.

@HerpDerpNV Год назад

LOL at the author having to use mostly US hovercraft footage because the US ones actually are functional.

@MrRyomo Год назад

Monstrous they are.

@ghimmy47 Год назад

Would be nice if the scenes in the video had more relation to the subject of the video.

@Olkv3D Год назад

What's the minimum number of crewmen needed to operate the LCAC? - Asking for a super villain.

@Dezzasheep Год назад

Feed it to the Byraktar.

@planetis_m Год назад

Buy some bread and stop dreaming of conquests that will not end up good for you.

@bycoxtax8562 Год назад

Cringe

@Loubie2005 Год назад

It will enjoy it a lot

@drpepper3838 Год назад

@@bycoxtax8562 russian army is cringe lel

@FilippoFontanella Год назад

@@drpepper3838 we’re super lucky we don’t have people like you, who’s making jokes on a country that can wipe out life from Earth, and which no one could do shit against it (read it like “hypersonic nukes”). We’re lucky we have people who don’t underestimate the enemy on a war, in which, for fuck’ sake, even the US would’ve struggled to make and do advancements.

@family_adventure23 Год назад

That is cool info but why no one want make video about dt30 amfibious vehicle. I think this should be mensioned somewhere.

@MasterYota1 Год назад

The best target ever!!

@phmaximus Год назад

This would be awesome for relief efforts

@louiswilkins9624 Год назад

Sweet vehicle

@Mike-tg7dj Год назад

Y'all, that there hover craft is slicker owl snot.🦉 If they wanted to be serious they should have ask the U.S . Marine Corp. They've been kicking butts since 1804 and the shores of Tripoli. Whether you love 'em or hate'em they often are called upon to defend what they think is right, and they go without complaining. You should have consulted with when you had the chance.

@bobman36 Год назад

Hell yeah brother! God bless live laugh love yeee haw

@bobman36 Год назад

Could you perhaps Gather footage and information on Soviet “aist” class lcac? footage of the aist was used already in the intro

@beachboy0505 Год назад

Excellent video 📹 Greece 🇬🇷 operates 4 Many islands 🏝?

@KUPHSER Год назад

this guy has an unimaginably strange voice

@justfly60482 Год назад

Within 10 years we will see em in action.

@jacobsparry8525 Год назад

And so easily air conditioned by just a couple Neptune Missiles! Just another of white elephant liked the Ekranoplan when do you consider things liked the Neptune, Harpoon, Tomahawk ASM, AND the multitude of others ASM out there. Not to mentioned the MLRS systems which cand ruin their day. They maked very big, juicy targets. That is why US Marines used smaller ones, but more of them.

@stevehill4615 Год назад

Yes, i was thinking of the Ekranoplans, wasn't one of the models (i think it was known as the Eaglet?) touted as an amphibious landing ship for the military, i do agree they seem crazy (sitting duck) but if their inception was in the 80's soviet thinking at that time was if the west had something then the USSR would have the same but bigger, another possible factor was the soviet union never mounted a full seaborne invasion whereas the US was experienced in this so knew many smaller landing craft had a better attrition rate than a few big landing craft.

@ahmadel-zebedy Год назад

US have the exact same vehicle lmao

@jacobsparry8525 Год назад

@@stevehill4615 The Soviets Union did haved a Loon-class Ekranoplan and all so one as called the Caspian Sea Monster. Those ones were ASM shooter crafts maked for wrecking air crafts carrier battle groups. Each would carried SIX sunburns SS-N-22 . Is this being what are you meand?

@coupster5464 Год назад

Bigger than those used as car ferries on the English Channel in the 1980's ?

@jellymop Год назад

The darn Rooskies always have to build the biggest everything lol. So fascinating the Soviet era stuff. Bald and Bankrupt expanded my interest beyond military. Man, even the new stuff in this last decade is fascinating.

@riccccccardo Год назад

Ahhhhh land mine proof makes sense now.

@lunabranwen Год назад

Just more Harpoon targets 🎯

@AKPakrat Год назад

Nice Big Target.....

@nnhk0056 Год назад

It's better when you do the intro music like this. When you use your standard music like in the MOAB video, it just sounds like an old scratched CD skipping. For the amount of time that you have for the part of the song you need, it's the wrong song to choose.

@theendisneigh-tm4wh Год назад

Deploy to the Pacific? They can't even invade their neighbours successfully 🤣

@fretsward2225 Год назад

Do a feature on a Russian hovercraft, and throw in some footage of the U.S. Navy LCAC. Got it...

@edwardfletcher7790 Год назад

If there wasn't wrong footage, this channel wouldn't survive ! LoL

@fretsward2225 Год назад

@@edwardfletcher7790 Understood, but why show U.S. Navy LCAC operations when the subject is a Russian vehicle?

@edwardfletcher7790 Год назад

@@fretsward2225 I'm saying this stupid channel always shows wrong footage, planes, ships etc They always mistakes in the details too.

@Stigsens1 Год назад

Now question how much of that gear works….maybe half.

@smoketinytom Год назад

Disclaimer: Half of the footage isn't Russian, it's US Landing Craft and it's deployment from a LHD.

@mmdirtyworkz Год назад

As usual, but hey 50% is great for this channel!

@HerpDerpNV Год назад

@@mmdirtyworkz I can give him some slack since finding modern footage of russian military equipment that actually is functional is fairly hard.

@smoketinytom Год назад

@@HerpDerpNV I was gonna say there’s plenty of footage, but the caveat is “functional” and then it’s rock bottom.

@bobman36 Год назад

Footage of Russian hovercrafts are hard to find in particular, I think the only way to find “aist” class lcac footage is archives and weird Russian tv show

@kreb7 Год назад

Greece use them for rapid reinforcement of Greeck islands

@kakakiri2601 Год назад

can we use this type of hovercraft as a landcruiser?

@timmcdaniel5720 Год назад

This will provide mobility year round in the Arctic

@daledykes9253 Год назад

Behemoth.

@rocketassistedgoat1079 Год назад

Ah, the Zubr class underwater assault submarine. Soon to join the Moskva guided missile submarine.

@cyrilli1546 Год назад

💀

@koba_Lyle Год назад

Yes! My favorite hovercraft. Haha!!

@jackhallander6706 Год назад

Anytime Russia says it has a new toy you should also automatically assume that they can’t use it due to incompetence, financial, or supply issues.

@bjkjoseph Год назад

With Putin in charge it’s like the clock is running backwards on Russia

@MrComplainer Год назад

Agreed

@ExtraterrestrialsareReall Год назад

With Brandon in charge it looks like merica is failing...

@GTChris Год назад

@@ExtraterrestrialsareReall You are right, almost as bad as when the world laughed in disbelief when a toddler named Donald ruined every inch of respect we had left for America.

@MrComplainer Год назад

@@ExtraterrestrialsareReall Let's see if he causes a recession. Like Obama when he took office (by no means am I saying Obama was a bad nor good president)

@mill2712 Год назад

@@GTChris It seems the only place on the rise right now is Xi's China.

@disturbingdevelopment4308 Год назад

Looks like a juicy target for neptune or harpoon missiles. Odessa is ready and waiting...

@johnconnolly5292 Год назад

Useful transport for arctic warfare, can ride right across ice floes.

@ayoutubecommenter1827 Год назад

Would probably get ripped on ice

@vanguard9067 Год назад

Wait! Russia has only two of these? Hardly a ringing endorsement of their value.

@bobman36 Год назад

Russia has 6 of them, 2 in service china and Greece have 2 as well if I’m not mistaken

@ghost-mike9295 Год назад

I avoided your channel for a long time because the very fast pronunciation was too tiring. But the new videos are easier to understand and your videos are all interesting. So subscribe again and keep it up. Greats from Germany.

@theallseeingmaster Год назад

Best if only used against undefended shores.

@Matze239 Год назад

Make one about crane-tanks

@JustArtsCreations Год назад

@Va5e1er Год назад

Watching this. All i could think is that you could destroy a entire brigade with one missile

@JonathanHallOverAllen Год назад

That is a very big target. Air Superiority would be necessary to launch such a beast. Otherwise it would be destroyed very quickly from the sky.

@davegenzler5273 Год назад

great target. Would make a great artificial reef.

@teddy3657 Год назад

Everyone pointing out that the skirt would be an easy target but you have time to shoot anything you want since as soon as they they try to shoot back theyll go flying the other way 😋

@bobman36 Год назад

The skirt is not required to function it also can not pop like a balloon or not likely be penetrated by small arms, made out of stronger material then the stuff at your local indoor shooting range

@daniellafferety4025 Год назад

If even if not nuclear power this is a Assume vehicle. The United States should make a giant nuclear version of this heavly armed amphibious hover vehicle to carry combat drones. Speed land, sea manuvering sounds great for brown water opes. Zubra class. Hover vehicle direct fier support.

@chaotixthefox Год назад

It's already giant, and the US already has a version.