What they were looking at was an early prototype of the Soviet Union’s Korabl Maket ground-effect vehicle, also known as an ekranoplan. Ekranoplans make use of “ground effect” – the ...

ALTHOUGH now abandoned and rusting, the 302ft Soviet megaplane Caspian Sea Monster was once a force to be reckoned with. The formidable ekranoplan, bigger than a Boeing 747 and armed to the teeth ...

First photos taken by American satellites showed the strange aircraft carrying the letters kM - which was thought to mean ‘Kaspian Monster’ but actually meant ‘Korabl maket’ - which ...

What they were looking at was an early prototype of the Soviet Union’s Korabl Maket ground-effect vehicle, also known as an ekranoplan. Ekranoplans make use of “ground effect” – the ...