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Originally posted by lightning_8669
The engines were mounted high to prevent them from ingesting water.
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I understand that. My point was just that I've never seen any other country put them there. The Soviets also built other transport aircraft with the engines in the same place - probably for remote unpaved runways and such.
Man they built some weird stuff. Check out that v-tail on top of the rudder. I swear they intentionally designed their military hardware to look alien so it would scare the hell out of us.