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 ...

A new ekranoplan, or ground-effect vehicle, design emerging from China was first noted earlier this week. Now a new image offers our first look at the whole airframe. An ekranoplan, derived from the ...

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 ...