Beached on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast -- a bizarre creation more at home in the deep than above the waves. It certainly doesn't look like something ...

China has constructed a massive aircraft-ship hybrid, nicknamed the 'Bohai Sea Monster', capable of flying under radar and outmaneuvering battleships. The craft, which employs a design from a ...

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 ...

China has constructed a massive aircraft-ship hybrid, nicknamed the 'Bohai Sea Monster', capable of flying under radar and outmaneuvering warships. The craft, which employs a design used by the ...

We have an occasional obsession with Soviet-era ekranoplans, the half-plane, half-hovercraft madness machines which take advantage of the ground effect, a phenomenon which provides for high lift at ...

It might be that soon you won't need to visit a museum to spot an ekranoplan, after all. The Lun-class ekranoplan on the Caspian Sea coast. After over 30 years in the military port, in 2020 the ...

Second wave "Lun" will add to the attractions of a region that, up until the coronavirus pandemic, had seen a number of initiatives to open it up to tourism, including the launch of cruise itineraries ...