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The KM (Korabl Maket) (Russian: Корабль-Макет, literally "Ship-maquette" or "Model-Ship"), known colloquially as the Caspian Sea Monster, was an experimental ground effect vehicle developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s by the Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau.
The only model of this class ever built to completion, the MD-160, entered service with the Soviet Navy Caspian Flotilla in 1987. It was retired in the late 1990s and sat unused at a Caspian Sea naval base in Kaspiysk until 2020. [3] [9] [10] The second Lun-class ekranoplan was partially built in the late 1980s.
Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok. A ground-effect vehicle (GEV), also called a wing-in-ground-effect (WIGE or WIG), ground-effect craft/machine (GEM), wingship, flarecraft, surface effect vehicle or ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gaining support from the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth or water.
The Lun-class ekranoplan was pulled from the water by three tug boats and two escort vessels.
KM "Caspian Sea Monster" - largest GEV ever built; Lun-class ekranoplan - Only GEV to be used as a warship; A-90 Orlyonok - Amphibious transport GEV; Beriev Be-2500 - Proposed heavy transport GEV; Aqualet - New 2011 Russian development of Ground Effect Vehicle; Chaika A-050 < "A-050 Chaika-2". globalsecurity.org; А-300-538; A-080-752
The “ground effect” principle that the seagliders use isn’t new; it was extensively tested by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, leading to some prominent examples of “ekranoplans” — large ...
Caspian Sea Monster: 16 Oct 1966: Ekranoplan: 1: 100.61 yards (92.00 meters) 41.12 yards (37.60 meters)37.6 m: 535.41 tons: Heaviest and longest flying vehicle until the An-225, 1980 crash Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: 30 Jun 1968: Transport: 131: 82.34 yards (75.29 meters) 74.26 yards (67.90 meters) 410.41 tons: 125.49 tons: Largest payload capacity ...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that the two had ...