The U.S. military is reviving an old Soviet-era concept with a new, cutting-edge aircraft—the Liberty Lifter. Designed to ...

The idea behind the ekranoplan should now be obvious: the vessel utilizes its extremely high speed and low detection profile to engage in quick attacks against enemy positions and vessels.

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

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 ...