China has constructed a massive aircraft-ship hybrid, nicknamed the 'Bohai Sea Monster', capable of flying under radar and ...

Analysts say it marks the largest leap in wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft design since the Cold War, when the Soviet ...

The Lun-class Ekranoplan, aka “The Caspian Sea Monster,” is actually both. And now one of the most extraordinary Cold War flying machines ever built is about to enjoy a new lease on life.

In the late 1960s, the Caspian Sea Monster was a Soviet hybrid of plane and boat (called an ekranoplan). Now a Singaporean company is continuing its legacy with the AirFish ground-effect vehicle.

After writing the post "Bring Back the Ekranoplan," praising the wonderful former Soviet Union ground effect vehicles, I was contacted by Aquila Global co-founder Timour Maslennikov, who said his ...

So what about a ekranoplan that starts as a hydrofoil and when it gets to 110km/h it retracts the hydrofoil and becomes a ground effect plane? Report comment. Reply. Dr Joni Pelham ...

Neither plane nor boat, Russia's Ekranoplan once launched nuclear-tipped missiles. Now, after a towing gone wrong, it's stranded off a beach in the Caspian Sea.

Ekranoplans are a curious class of vehicle; most well known for several Soviet craft designed to operate at sea, flying just above the waves in ground effect. [rctestflight] had accidentally come a… ...

An ekranoplan and a flying boat, all in one. The Liberty Lifter isn’t the only new foray into seaplanes. U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is also working to develop a C-130 with floats ...

The Lun-class Ekranoplan, aka “The Caspian Sea Monster,” is actually both. And now one of the most extraordinary Cold War flying machines ever built is about to enjoy a new lease on life.

The ekranoplan that has been moved to Derbent is the only one of its class ever completed and entered service in 1987. A second Lun, unarmed and assigned to rescue and supply missions, ...