FIELD: transport Hovercraft; launching units for ground-effect machines of high capacity; designing Hovercraft. SUBSTANCE: Hovercraft is provided with high-pressure air supercharger, receiver with main nozzles which form main compartment by jets, additional nozzles forming additional compartments by jets and collector for bleeding air from under bottom of main compartment. Hovercraft is provided with additional low-pressure air supercharger with passages for supply of air under bottom of main compartment. Additional nozzles are communicated with high-pressure air supercharger of main compartment and/or with autonomous high-pressure air supercharger of additional compartment. Collector for bleeding air from under bottom of main compartment is brought in communication with passages supplying air under bottom of additional compartments by means of bypass passages. EFFECT: reduced power required for forming air cushion under bottom of Hovercraft. 1 dwg
