Is it a boat? Is it a plane? Is it the Loch Ness monster? The Lun-class ekranoplan, colloquially known as “The Caspian Sea Monster,” is arguably a mish-mash of all three, and has just reared its head ...

Powered by 228,800 Lb-Ft of thrust, this Lun-class Ekranoplan was designed to carry two-million pounds of Europe-invading soldiers and vehicles and six nuclear missiles at speeds up to 340 MPH. Thank ...

Ground Effect Vehicles, also known as ekranoplans, take advantage of a strange aerial phenomenon in which at extremely low altitudes: at roughly ten to twenty feet an airplane’s wings ‘ride’ on a ...

The relationship between the U.S. and Russia is more tense than it’s been since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. American and E.U. sanctions on the Russian government in the wake ...

Two years ago, Russian authorities pulled a “sea monster” from a remote military pier on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. But the 302-foot Lun-class ekranoplan was no ...

Beached for over a year on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast – something bizarre perhaps more at home beneath the water than in the air. It certainly ...

As a defense analyst and writer, it is gutting to see a unique part of naval history flounder on a beach, at the mercy of the waves. Russia’s Cold War-era ‘ekranoplan,’ a one-of-a-kind flying missile ...

Happy Wednesday (evening), I thought I'd post these awesome pictures of the Soviet Union's Lun-class Ekranoplan rotting in a shipyard in the Russian town of Kaspisk on the Caspian Sea. Seeing the ...

Star attraction The ekranoplan that has been moved to Derbent is the only one of its class ever completed and entered service in 1987. A second Lun, unarmed and assigned to rescue and supply missions, ...

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 ...