Powered by 228,800 Lb-Ft of thrust, this Lun-class Ekranoplan was designed to carry two-million pounds of Europe-invading soldiers and vehicles and six nuclear missiles at speeds up to 340 MPH. Thank ...

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 ...

For decades, the Lun-class ekranoplan was one of the Soviet Union's most unusual and secretive military projects. Neither a ...

Officials and journalists were invited to the ceremony and the towing operations were widely reported in the media. However, it turns out that no Patriot Park was built in Derbent, and the ekranoplan ...

Beached for over a year on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast – something bizarre perhaps more at home beneath the water than in the air. It certainly ...

The Ekranoplan concept was born in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Its design stemmed from the discovery of the ground effect, a phenomenon in which an aircraft flying close to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years ago, Russian authorities pulled a “sea monster” from a remote military pier on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Wednesday (evening), I thought I'd post these awesome pictures of the Soviet Union's Lun-class Ekranoplan rotting in a shipyard in the Russian town of Kaspisk on the Caspian Sea. Seeing the ...

Beached for over a year on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast – something bizarre perhaps more at home beneath the water than in the air. It certainly ...