A futuristic vehicle that nonetheless charts the political swings of the 20th century in a simple story of its design, development and subsequent disappearance from Ukraine's industrial production capacity for entirely political reasons... the vehicle itself still being as relevant as it was when it was first was developed in the 1980s.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/donetsk.htm
The Zubr-class LCAC is a class of air-cushioned landing craft of Ukrainian design. This class of military hovercraft is the world's largest hovercraft. It is designed to sealift landing assault units from equipped/non-equipped vessels to non-equipped shores, as well as to transport and plant mines. The mission of the Zubr class is to carry out rapid sealift and beach landing of assault troops and combat material on territory held by hostile forces. The ships also provides strong fire support for the troop operations on shore. Each vessel can carry up to 130t of cargo: three main battle tanks (MBT) such as T-72, or eight BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), or ten BTR-70 wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APC), or 360 fully equipped amphibious landing troops. The ship has a bow and a stern ramp for fast landing of troops and combat material.
