A U.S. military program that sought to resurrect a secretive Soviet aircraft design has been scrapped, meaning no American successors to a plane dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster are on the horizon ...
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 ...
In the 1960s, the United States quietly sketched out a rival to the Soviet “Caspian Sea Monster” — an ekranoplan the size of a warship, able to carry nuclear missiles across oceans below radar ...