But fly it did – albeit a long time ago. Back in July 2020, after lying dormant for more than three decades, the Sea Monster of the Caspian, one of the most eye-catching flying machines ever ...

The unfamiliar structure, a kind of hybrid between aircraft and ship, was quickly dubbed the “Caspian Sea Monster.” What they were looking at was an early prototype of the Soviet Union’s ...

The Lun-class ekranoplan, dubbed the 'Caspian Sea Monster', was discovered by the USA during the Cold War and dragged onto the beach in Derbent in July 2020. The colossal piece of machinery is ...

Two years ago, Russian authorities pulled a “sea monster” from a remote military pier on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. But the 302-foot Lun-class ekranoplan was ...

The KM, dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster by US Intelligence services, was a one-of-a-kind monstrosity, measuring 240 feet long with a 144 foot wingspan. Capable of carrying 137 tons of troops and ...

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 ...

Is it a boat? Is it a plane? Is it the Loch Ness monster? The Lun-class ekranoplan, colloquially known as “The Caspian Sea Monster,” is arguably a mish-mash of all three, and has just reared ...

In the late 1960s, US spy satellites captured images of a massive Soviet ekranoplan, and analysts dubbed it the "Caspian Sea Monster." That was the experimental "Korabl Maket," or KM. Tests of the ...

Soviet engineering is often derided as effective but crude and simplistic, but that’s a bum rap. The USSR produced a number of technologies that were as visually arresting as they were effective.

The exotic eight-engine plane-boat hybrid, nicknamed the ‘Caspian Sea Monster’, was built as part of a top secret project during the Cold War but lies abandoned on a beach in Russia.

Inspired by the Soviet Caspian Sea Monster, Seagull uses low-altitude flight to reduce drag. Poseidon plans to test the Seagull with the US Navy and Coast Guard this summer. Like many startups ...