Like unbelievably huge, scary military hovercraft appearing out of nowhere.
This scene from a Russian beach near the city of Kaliningrad is unbelievable. One minute people are soaking up the sun in the all-too-brief northern summer. The next, an enormous steel beast slinks out of the water and up onto the sand.
It's like a sci-fi movie, only real.
The 550-tonne vessel roared past swimmers on the Baltic Sea coast before charging the shore and coming to rest 50ft inland.
Russian paratroopers then jumped from the craft and told stunned sunseekers to pack up and move on.
The Russian defence ministry said that the 200ft war craft was on a tactical training exercise in a military firing range and that the beach should have been empty.
A spokesman told tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Docking at the beach is normal.
"What people were doing at the beach on the territory of the military (base) is unclear."
But locals told the newspaper that the military base was in fact in Khmelevka, several kilometres from the beach in Mechnikovo.
The Zubr-type vessels can reach speeds of up to 70mph but, incredibly, no one was hurt in the incident last weekend.
Source : Mirror , HeraldSun , SkyNews
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