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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the last days of July, news surfaced of the Russian military working on a revival of the Soviet-era ekranoplan. To be called Orlan, these brand new ground effect vehicles are to come into existence ...

The Soviet Lun-class ekranoplan lays dormant on the coast of the Caspian Sea for more than 30 yearsCredit: Getty For the first time, the mysterious Chinese military plane was spotted in the Bohai Sea ...

The Lun-class ekranoplan on the Caspian Sea coast. After over 30 years in the military port, in 2020 the Caspian Flotilla presented the ekranoplan to the city of Derbent, where it will be exhibited in ...