The Gus class LCAC was a medium sized assault hovercraft operated by the Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

 from 1969 until the early 1990s.

Configuration

The Gus class was a military version of the Soviet Skate class 50 passenger hovercraft, and was designed to transport infantry and light equipment. Between 1969 and 1974 32 Gus class assault hovercraft were constructed. They were deployed to all Soviet naval fleets except the northern fleet, and were used extensively along the Amur River border with China

China

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. Three Gus class LCAC could be carried by the Ivan Rogov class assault transport. They were replaced by the larger Tsaplya class LCAC

Tsaplya class LCAC

The Tsaplya class LCAC was a medium size assault hovercraft operated by the Russian Navy.-Configuration:These craft are a lengthened version of the Lebed class LCAC hovercraft, which is the Russian Navy equivalent to the U.S. Navy LCAC. They were also meant to replace the smaller Gus class LCAC....

 and more recently the smaller Czilim class ACV

Czilim class ACV

The Czilim class ACV is a small patrol hovercraft operated by the Border Guard Service of Russia.- Configuration :The Czilim class is the first new class of military hovercraft developed for the Russian military since the fall of the Soviet Union. It is based on an Almaz design and was ordered...

. All Guss class hovercraft were believed scrapped in the early 1990s.

Operators

Russian Federation Navy (retired)

Specifications

• Crew 6
• Dimensions
  • Length 21.4 metres
  • Width 7.8 metres
  • full load displacement 27 tons
• Propulsion
  • Motors gas turbine
  • Power: 1 TVD 10 gas turbine 780 horspower (lift); 2 TVD 10 gas turbine 1560 horsepower (propulsion)
  • Propellers: 2 three bladed variable pitch propellers
• Performance
  • Speed 60 knots
  • Range 230 miles at 43 knots, 185 miles at 50 knots
  • Military Lift: 25 assault troops with equipment
• Weapons
  • none