Observe wingtip vortexes on an RC Ekranoplan during flight. A fascinating look at the aerodynamics and unique behavior of ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. nearly built an Ekranoplan so huge it could have changed sea power forever - a flying warship ...

THIS is the moment Ukrainian forces managed to take out a Soviet-era Russian amphibious aircraft for the first time. Ukraine’s military intelligence service HUR claims it struck two Russian Be-12 ...

During the 20th century, several powers experimented with novel weapons systems that aspired to revolutionize warfare. The only surviving unit of the A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplane is on display in a ...

In the age of AI warfare, Turkey is bringing back a Cold War legend, the ekranoplan. Meet the TALAY: a stealthy, sea-skimming drone that flies just meters above the waves, dodges radar, and could ...

REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of Seaglider vessels and a trusted partner of the U.S. Marine Corps, will be making seagliders for the US marines. REGENT has a $10 billion commercial ...

Leonardo’s Miysis DIRCM will protect the Luftwaffe’s fleet of six KC-130J and C-130J-30 aircraft operated by the Franco-German Binational Air Transport C-130J Squadron (BATS). Leonardo has been ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

Images of what is claimed to be a Chinese version of the famous Soviet Ekranoplan have found their way on the internet. Technically called a wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicle, this is the first time ...

Liberty Lifter, a program to develop a ground effect aircraft that could carry heavy loads while skimming over waves and up to 10,000 feet, began in 2022. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Editor’s note: On January 17, economist Philip Pilkington wrote an essay, “Why Aircraft Carriers Are Becoming Obsolete,” in The National Interest in which he identified several drawbacks of using ...