When the Soviets Made a Plane That was also a Ship

In the heat of the Cold War, when the world’s superpowers were racing to outfly, outswim, and outthink each other, the Soviet Union quietly unleashed something that defied all categories. It wasn’t quite a plane, not really a boat, and certainly not a submarine — yet it managed to borrow a bit from each. They called it the KM Ekranoplan, but NATO, baffled by satellite photos of a gigantic winged machine skimming the surface of the Caspian Sea, simply dubbed it “The Caspian Monster.” The name stuck, and deservedly so.




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