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Flying Just Above Water – Soviet Sea Monsters That Flew Too Close to Madness

They looked like ships but flew like jets – Soviet ekranoplans skimmed the sea at 600 km/h in a cloud of spray and vapor – the KM “Caspian Sea Monster” stunned NATO satellites with its size, speed, ...
The National Interest

The Soviet “Flying Boat” That Fell from Grace

The Ekranoplan concept was born in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Its design stemmed from the discovery of the ground effect, a phenomenon in which an aircraft flying close to a ...
WIVB-TV

German, Swedish fighter jets track Russian reconnaissance plane flying over Baltic Sea

BERLIN (AP) — Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military ...
The Aviationist

Multiple Russian Aircraft Intercepted Over Baltic Sea and Alaska ADIZ

Russian aircraft were intercepted over the Alaska ADIZ and the Baltic Sea hours after Trump suggested NATO should shoot down intruding jets. Two formations of Russian aircraft have been intercepted ...