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 ...

Mysterious, heavily shrouded vehicles were recently spotted rolling through Beijing under tight security, just as reports surfaced of China’s successful tests of a massive, sea-skimming ekranoplan in ...

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 ...

The "Lun" ekranoplan was one of the last designs to come out of the Soviet ground effect vehicle program. Longer than an Airbus A380 superjumbo and almost as tall, despite its size and weight, the Lun ...