In the 1980s, an American engineer had a bold vision—to build an ekranoplan 10 times bigger than the Soviet Union’s Caspian ...

The A-2500 ekranoplan was a marvel of Soviet engineering, designed to carry fighter jets and traverse oceans using ground effect. Discover the innovative design, the strategic potential ...

[rctestflight] had accidentally come across the ground effect flight regime himself years ago, and decided it was time to build an ekranoplan of his own. I want to see little ekranoplans in at ...

Less a plane than "a boat that flies," the giant Ekranoplan represented a completely new kind of vehicle when a champagne bottle was cracked against its nose and it slid into the Caspian Sea in 1966.

But after decades of testing, the ekranoplan never became much more than a curiosity for American intelligence agencies to ponder over. Now [Peter Sripol] has built his own version of what the CIA ...