10. Bartini Beriev VVA-14 – Soviet Union
Producer: Robert Bartini, Bertev
Main Users: Union of Soviet Users
Price: *$1.2 million
The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 was designed to be a VTOL amphibious aircraft with wing-in-the-ground effect capability. The Soviets created the ship in the early 1970s, intending for it to take off from the ocean and go a great distance at a high speed.
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It would be able to fly both at high altitudes and at the surface of the water with efficiency. Robert Bartini was charged with designing the VVA-14 in order to attack a Navy Polaris missile submarine built in the United States. Despite the creation of two prototypes, the initiative ultimately failed.
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