On Plasma Shields

The bizarre part is that this stuff was all over Russian (then Soviet) tech hobbyist magazines back in the 80s ... All this "controlled plasmoid" stuff isn't new at all, even though some say it never quite worked right, if at all.

UPDATE: the patent does seem to give some credit to works of some Mr Leonov, which seems to be related to reducing air friction using artificially generated plasma cloud around the plane.