holy shit this is an insanely cool vehicle that I had no idea about, fucking Soviet Half-Life 2 airboat :sicko-yes:
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i wonder how many degrees of incline these things could handle. im guessing not many
They were used on rivers and lakes exclusively afaik.
Wikipedia suggests that they can't handle any kind of grade... but that's okay if you're using them to fly down a frozen river super fast.
there's an alternate reality where the USSR won and Comrades of Duty (it sounds better in Russian) is the most popular video game series and there's a level where you get to absolutely whip down a river gunning down nazis in this thing