There are probably a lot of things that fit that description, but the one that [Nick Rehm] is working on is known as an ekranoplan. Specifically, he’s looking to make the surface-skimming ground ...

[rctestflight] had accidentally come across the ground effect flight regime himself years ago, and decided it was time to build an ekranoplan of his own. I want to see little ekranoplans in at ...

Such a vehicle would sail across the open ocean like a normal ship, and then switch to being a GEV when it goes on the attack. The other possibility is to develop ekranoplan carriers. These would ...

The U.S. military is reviving an old Soviet-era concept with a new, cutting-edge aircraft—the Liberty Lifter. Designed to skim just above the ocean’s surface using the ground effect, this massive ...