Thick smog hangs over the Iranian capital. Arne Immanuel Bänsch/dpa Iranian air defence is in action in the Iranian city of Rasht on the Caspian Sea, Iranian media reports said late Wednesday. Small ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, CIA analysts spotted a mystery vehicle being developed on the Caspian coastline of Soviet Russia. The craft was dubbed the “Caspian Sea Monster” and was ...