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

The Ground Effect Submarine Hunter! In the shadowy corners of Soviet aerospace innovation, a bizarre and ambitious creation ...

The Lun-class ekranoplan was retrieved from the Caspian Sea in 2020, after lying dormant for more than three decades, before being transported to a beach in Dagestan, for preservation, later ...

The Lun-class ekranoplan became the only one ever operationally deployed as a warship, earning the nickname "Caspian Sea Monster" due to its size and speed.

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 ...

The Lun-class Ekranoplan is based on the Caspian Sea Monster prototype. But after the USSR’s collapse, the ekranoplan dream faded due to lack of funding. Now that dream may have been resurrected.

China is already producing the AVIC AG600 Kunlong, the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, designed primarily for civilian ...

A large, jet-powered ekranoplan has recently been spotted in China, drawing comparisons to the Soviet Union’s Cold War-era ground-effect vehicles and signaling a possible new chapter in China’s ...

The Liberty Lifter is not a new concept in aviation. In 1966, the Soviet Union designed its first ground effect Lun-class Ekranoplan aircraft. They planned to develop 340-foot-long boat-aircraft ...

Strategist James Carville urged Democrats to reconnect with working-class White voters in order to win elections, arguing they had been excluded from Democrats' "too-cool-for-school" coalition.