Soviet "Star Wars" Program

[Tuckerfan]

Holy crap! Look at this stuff!

Soviet Union was developing laser space battle station Skif from beginning of 80’s.
Length: 37 meters
Diameter: 4.1 meter
Weight: around 80 tons
It was supposed to be launched by Energia booster (same as for Buran shuttle)
Unarmed prototype filled with scientific equipment was created around 1985 and launched 15 May 1987. It was failed to start operations and with the fall of Soviet Union project was scrapped.

A little more on the projects can be found here.

[NurseCarmen]

Man, that thing would totally friggen crush a dolphin head.