Hot from the “Straight Out of ThunderBirds” file, comes the soviet Caspian Sea Monster
Look at this baby!
It’s called an Ekranoplan. Unlike other planes, this modified sea plane is designed to fly just meters over sea level, exploiting a aerodynamic effect called the Ground Effect
This beasty was created at the end of the Soviet Union in the 1980’s. Check out the EIGHT engines on the side of the cockpit 🙂 It must have been super noisy inside!
It packed 8 missiles!
Apparently it sucked at turning, and it wasn’t very good in rough weather, but the Soviets were ironing out those kinks.
Check out its video here on: