[Dagnabitt]

Russians/Soviet designers seem to have a thing for the huge and freaky.

Ekranoplan comes to mind.

[goldstategop]

Rugged and overbuilt I would say.

I’m skeptical this super helicopter will ever be built.

China’s requirements may be more than the Russian aeronautical industry can supply.

And the cost would not be cheap.

[bert]

In the old soviet system, they were paid by weight. Trucks were paid for based on their weight rather than carrying capacity.

The bigger, the heavier, the better