Inspired by Soviet ground effect vehicles, an American engineer proposed a colossal ekranoplan capable of carrying thousands of passengers or entire military units. Designed to fly just above the ...

DARPA’s Liberty Lifter aims to revive ground effect aircraft capable of skimming the ocean while carrying heavy military ...

Während des Kalten Kriegs experimentierte die Sowjetunion mit ungewöhnlichen Konzepten. Eines davon ist der sogenannte Ekranoplan, ein Flugzeug, das den Bodeneffekt ausnutzt und nur wenige Meter über ...

Ground effect is the term used to describe the effect that air flowing around a vehicle forms a kind of cushion the closer it gets to the ground, providing significantly more lift for the same ...

The “Liberty Lifter” fits neatly into the operational concepts sculpting how US joint forces intend to compete and win in the Western Pacific. All hail the “ekranoplan”! The US military may have hit ...

China has reportedly presented a humongous ‘ekranoplan’, a hybrid between an aircraft and a ship, alarming US military experts who flagged a ‘real and serious’ threat from Beijing. China has yet to ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The high-speed sea vehicle, known as ekranoplan, a legacy from the Cold War era, has once again attracted the attention of two major world powers, the United States (US) and China.

Die Technologie erinnert stark an sowjetische Entwicklungen des Kalten Krieges. Die UdSSR investierte massiv in die Ekranoplan-Technologie und entwickelte legendäre Modelle wie das "Kaspische ...

As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...

A U.S. military program that sought to resurrect a secretive Soviet aircraft design has been scrapped, meaning no American successors to a plane dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster are on the horizon ...

Chinese ambitions in the South and East China seas, as well as Taiwan, make development of craft like this ekranoplan and the AG600 flying boat an absolute necessity. The first photos of China’s ...

The US and China seem to be in a race to resurrect the Soviet era military tech CHILLING pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time. And the ...