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The Soviets also crashed one of their ground effect planes, killing all the crew. I understand they were also very costly to operate.
Electric ground effect has a major advantage vs the jet turbine driven ones.
It does not have to suck in massive volumes of air close to the ground....sea water is not good for jet turbines.
Sea water is a nightmare for anything mechanical, in my experience, but electronics can at least be sealed effectively. Usually.
The biggest reason I'm so sceptical about this, is every other use case I've seen for electric vehicles or vessels has been something that's already a proven concept. Cars, trucks, planes, harbour ferries, they are all a proven concept, we're just moving to a different fuel.
Ground effect planes, on the other hand, have never been proven with any fuel type.
Good point.... We will just have to watch and find out. Ground effect theory, and somewhat practice is sound.