Soviet engineering is often considered simplistic but effective - yet this beast of a boat-plane hybrid was anything but. The KM, dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster by US Intelligence services, was a ...

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 no ...

In the late 1960s, decades deep into the Cold War, US intelligence analysts monitoring the Caspian Sea came across satellite images of an oddly shaped, winged machine of huge proportions. 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. Just ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the summer of 1967, a group of intelligence analysts gathered in ...

In aerodynamics, ground effect refers to the lifting force under the wing of an aircraft in proximity to the ground. It plays a big part in the landing and takeoff. For fixed-wing planes, ground ...

In the late 1960s, decades deep into the Cold War, US intelligence analysts monitoring the Caspian Sea came across satellite images of an oddly shaped, winged machine of huge proportions. The ...