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The Caspian Sea Monster at Kaspiysk photographed with a KH-8 reconnaissance satellite in 1968. It remained the heaviest aircraft in the world throughout its 15-year service life, and served as the basis for Lun's development.
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.
The craft was dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster by U.S. intelligence experts, after a huge, unknown craft was spotted on satellite reconnaissance photos of the Caspian Sea area in the 1960s. With its short wings, it looked airplane-like in planform, but would probably be incapable of flight. [14]
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Beriev Be-1 - Experimental aircraft used in development of VVA-14; Bartini Beriev VVA-14 - Amphibious anti-submarine aircraft, only prototypes were produced; 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 ...
This is a list of large aircraft, including three types: fixed wing, ... Heaviest turboprop aircraft Caspian Sea Monster: 16 Oct 1966: Ekranoplan: 1: 100.61 yards (92 ...
Pages in category "Aircraft first flown in 1966" ... Caspian Sea Monster; Chatelain AC.9; Chengdu J-7; Ciani Crib; D. Dassault Mirage F1; Dassault Mirage F2; Davis DA-2;
The KM was produced at the Red Sormovo factory in Gorky, then secretly transported along the Volga river to Kaspiysk, where it would be stationed to undergo testing by the Soviet Navy in the Caspian Sea operated by test pilots of the Soviet Air Force. On its first flight on October 16, 1966, the KM was co-piloted by Alexeyev himself, which was ...