Russian Hovercraft Invades Crowded Beach, Not Putin's Jet Ski; Was Beach Military Territory Or Did Kremlin Forces Make A Wrong Left Turn? (VIDEO)

A giant hovercraft casually pulled up onto a Russian beach, startling sunbathers trying to enjoy a relaxing day by the sea. No, it wasn't Vladimir Putin's hovercraft, as some people intially joked.

The craft moved onto the beach at about 70 miles per hour, Newsy reported.

Nobody was injured, but paratroopers surrounded beachgoers and asked them to leave, Sky News reported.

"Docking at the beach ... is a normal event," a spokesman was quoted as saying. "What people were doing at the beach on the territory of a military [base] is unclear," A spokesman for the Russian defense ministry told a local newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, according to Sky News.

The newspaper said the military base was actually a mile or two away.

"Purported to be the world's largest vessel in its class the Zubr (Bison) vessel weighs some 550 tons, carries sophisticated weapons systems and is capable of carrying tanks and up to 400 troops," the Irish Times reported.

The crafts are also prevalent in the Greek Navy. It has two rocket launchers, four portable missile systems, and automatic gun mounts, naval-technology.com reported.

While the Russian beachgoers were surprised to see a huge hovercraft, incredibly low-flying planes are a regular occurrence at a beach near Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maartin, National Post reported.

"I just saw a plane earlier this morning that looked like it only cleared the fence by about eight feet," says Ms. Indyk. "Once, the pilot of an Insel Air flight came right up, as close as he could get, waving at us and sticking the end of his plane right over the fence. The whole beach was cheering and he just kept revving and revving and finally took off," Donna Indyk, a tourist from Pittsburgh, told the National Post.

A woman even suffered a head injury on the beach when she got too close to a jet engine.

The low-flying planes tend to draw in crowds, instead of driving them away, National Post reported.

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