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The Escaped Ekranoplan

After a failure while being towed to port, the Soviet Union’s only completed Lun-Class Ekranoplan was left stranded in shallow waters on the Caspian Sea. The Ekranoplan was a unique Soviet plane-boat ...
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 ...
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 ...