As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...

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 ...

New images of the Chinese ekranoplan show the presence of underwing weapons pylons, suggesting a strike role in addition to ...

This extraordinary ekranoplan concept was designed as a giant sea-skimming launch platform that could carry a mothership and ...

The Soviet A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplan is a plane with features that inspire double-takes: short, stubby wings, and a tail with a turboprop in the middle. But what you'd notice more than anything is that ...

Two months after the Soviet-made "Lun" ekranoplan was hauled onto a remote beach in Daghestan to star in a military-themed Patriotic Park, the legendary craft remains wallowing in the breakers, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It’s possible that the rusting hulks, leftover from the Soviet days, are the only ekranoplans anyone will see for the foreseeable future. Between the 1960s and the early ...

A Russian photographer snuck into the world’s only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle and captured rare images of its interior. This is the Lun-class ekranoplan, a formerly top-secret Soviet naval ...