Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it a boat? Is it a plane? Is it the Loch Ness monster? The Lun-class ekranoplan, colloquially known as “The Caspian Sea Monster ...

Ground Effect Vehicles, also known as ekranoplans, take advantage of a strange aerial phenomenon in which at extremely low altitudes: at roughly ten to twenty feet an airplane’s wings ‘ride’ on a ...

As a defense analyst and writer, it is gutting to see a unique part of naval history flounder on a beach, at the mercy of the waves. Russia’s Cold War-era ‘ekranoplan,’ a one-of-a-kind flying missile ...

The Lun-class Soviet-era ekranoplan is currently beached in the Caspian Sea and taking on water, despite original plans to restore it as a museum piece. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...