Russia Is Making Flying Saucers

it's deffinately an IFO and not a weather balloon but it is saucer shaped so in away we get all the pieces of the pie in one

seriously though i believe this is the beginning...but when do we get our death star and starship enterprises?

[edit on 16-3-2010 by metalholic]

i think it would be pretty cool to see some more blimps flying around.

but i doubt this will ever get off the ground. as its easier to just use current aeroplanes.

might be worth exploring the possibility of combining these with a rover. for landing on planets. (remote controlled) i dont mean fly there with em. i mean send rocket with one strapped to the rover. wich can detach fly around and then go back to the rover.

[edit on 16-3-2010 by MR BOB]

In Ulyanovsk, approved a five-year program to build aerostatic termoballastiruemogo aircraft (ATLA), nicknamed because of its disk-shaped "flying saucer" reports RIA Novosti. It is planned that the amount of investment attracted to the region amount to about 2,7 billion rubles.Besides the very production of "plates" will create about 800 jobs and ensure the flow of money into the regional budget. The development program is run company Lokomoskay

English Translation From LocomoSky
Also have a look at their Projects link there you will find more info on Technical solutions and Design Features.
Also got to love the design lol and this would probably explain a lot of UFO sightings or some. Only my opinion still hope this helps
Sorry this is just updated from the original Op same site as posted at start.

[edit on 22-3-2010 by k3rm1t]

Originally posted by draknoir2 as this is apparently a heavy lifting craft.

Yes, the Russians have been working on heavy lift craft for years.



[edit on 22-3-2010 by REMISNE]

Yes its true.
There was a saucer gap before the missile gap.
That is why von Braun worked on saucers until America put on
a big saucer display over Washington D.C. for world wide
headlines to tell Russia that we had the technology.
After that rush of newly developed Tesla technology
Russia displays world wide in '57 rocket science technology
and launches a man made satellite.
Now America has a missile gap with public launches failing
due to poor gyros.
Von Braun goes from saucers to rockets and launches America's
first satellite.
The many failed launches had to wait while striking gyro engineers
signed better benefit and retirement packages.
Getting better gyros and new gyro documentation the government took
the production to another company and perhaps the engineers
followed suit.
So sightings in Moscow and saucer takeoffs in Ukraine might have
happened since before the missile gap cause there was a
saucer gap to plug first.