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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...