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 ...
Two years ago, Russian authorities pulled a “sea monster” from a remote military pier on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. But the 302-foot Lun-class ekranoplan was no ...
The Lun-class ekranoplan on the Caspian Sea coast. After over 30 years in the military port, in 2020 the Caspian Flotilla presented the ekranoplan to the city of Derbent, where it will be exhibited in ...
Unveiling a Cold War Oddity: The Ground Effect Submarine Hunter! In the shadowy corners of Soviet aerospace innovation, a bizarre and ambitious creation once soared just above the waves — the ground ...
When Russia tried to move its last surviving Lun-class ekranoplan in 2020, the operation went disastrously wrong — and the Cold War super-weapon washed up on a public beach. Then an urban explorer ...