Weird Cold-War Tech: The Ekranoplan

It’s a boat! It’s a plane! It’s the Caspian Sea-Monster!

During the cold war, Russia experimented with boat/plane hybrids which utilized the ground-effect to skim a few feet above the surface of the water. More history and photos can be found here.

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  1. Excellent! Thanks for the link. I’d seen a Discovery Wings show about these things and then promptly forgot what they were called so that searching seemed impossible. Now I can feed my brain. 🙂

  2. Excellent! Thanks for the link. I’d seen a Discovery Wings show about these things and then promptly forgot what they were called so that searching seemed impossible. Now I can feed my brain. 🙂

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